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    The Crisis in the American-Turkish Relations: The Creation of an Independent Kurdistan
    The Crisis in the American-Turkish Relations: The Creation of an Independent Kurdistan
    The Crisis in the American-Turkish Relations: The Creation of an Independent Kurdistan
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    The Crisis in the American-Turkish Relations: The Creation of an Independent Kurdistan

    By Iakovos Alhadeff

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    Turkey has been a prominent NATO member, and a traditional US ally for many years. However the shift in the US energy policy in the Middle East, and more specifically its rapprochement with Iran, does not help Turkey to become the absolute energy hub between the Middle East and Europe, which is her main objective, in order to overcome her lack of energy resources, and in order to increase her geostrategic significance in the international arena.

    This booklet explains the crisis in the American-Turkish relations over Syria and Iran, and it explains why this crisis is a crisis over contradicting oil and natural gas interests.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIakovos Alhadeff
    Release dateNov 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311390929
    The Crisis in the American-Turkish Relations: The Creation of an Independent Kurdistan
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    Iakovos Alhadeff

    I have studied economics to postgraduate level. I never worked as an economist though. I worked in the field of charter accountancyand I completed the relevant professional exams (the Greek equivalent of the English A.C.A.). My essays are written for the general reader with no economic or accounting knowledge, and the emphasis is on intuition. All my documents are extremely pro market and quite anti-socialist in nature. I admire economists from the Chicago and the Austrian School i.e. Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard. I am Greek and English is not my first language, so I hope you will excuse potential errors in my syntax.

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      The Crisis in the American-Turkish Relations - Iakovos Alhadeff

      The Crisis in the American-Turkish Relations

      The Creation of an Independent Kurdistan

      Iakovos Alhadeff

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      Table of Contents

      Turkey and Syria

      Turkey and Iran

      Turkey and the United States

      Kurdistan

      Turkey and Syria

      Turkey is one of NATO’s strongest members, and has for many years been a traditional US ally. However Turkey’s ambitious energy policy is putting this relationship to the test. Turkey is fighting with all its might, in order to become the absolute energy hub between the Middle East and Europe.

      That was clear from the way Erdogan slammed Israel, a former ally, when Israel, together with Cyprus, started exploiting its natural gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea, which could provide Europe with an alternative source of energy, which would bypass Turkey.

      Turkey’s ambitions became even clearer when Erdogan became one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the overthrown of another former ally, the Syrian dictator Bashar al- Assad. Erdogan became one of the major enemies of the Assad regime, after the Syrian dictator agreed in 2011 for the construction of the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline, which would transfer Iranian natural gas and oil to the Mediterranean Sea, and which would bypass Turkey (see green line on the following map). The end of this pipeline would also be

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