HÜRRİYET DAILY NEWS | 2 JUNE 2014 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ and PAUL MICHAEL WIHBEY | For both Washington and Ankara, the stakes are high, possibly higher than many experts and officials in the two capitals realize. Not only is a new Eurasian economic partnership of significant proportions...
Hürriyet Daily News | 31 May, 2014 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ – PAUL MICHAEL WIHBEY | Energy and geopolitics, which cannot be treated in isolation from one another, today dominate both Turkish and American strategic thinking more than any time in the history of their bilateral relations. With the stroke of a pen...
HÜRRİYET DAILY NEWS | 20 MAY 2014 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | As a former Turkish diplomat, who worked tirelessly for his country to join the European Union (EU) at some point, I do not take pleasure in saying that this ambitious federal project is not going anywhere and...
Hürriyet Daily News | 24 February, 2014 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | I was deeply saddened by the bloody scenes at Maidan Nezalezhnosti - the traditional place for large-scale political protest rallies – including the 1989 student “Revolution on Granite”, the 2001 “Ukraine without Kuchma,” the 2004 “Orange...
HÜRRİYET DAILY NEWS | 17 February, 2014 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | The world energy industry needs around $37 trillion over the next two decades for new greenfield projects and to upgrade existing energy infrastructure. Turkey’s investment requirement is also colossal – minimum $130 billion only over the next decade to...
Hürriyet Daily News | 21 December, 2013 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ * - DIMITAR BECHEV | One of the key strategic issues we discussed at the 12 December launch of The Bosphorus Energy Club at Sait Halim Pasha Yalisi was how the global game-changers in energy would affect the...
Hürriyet Daily News | 12 December, 2013 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | The game has changed in energy. Its rules and players, too. The real game-changer in this new age is the rising gas production in North America from shale basins, which is transforming the global gas market. Russia’s energy...
Hürriyet Daily News | 18 November, 2013 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | Our minds are still obsessed with, and conditioned by, the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, and the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. True, they both sought to carve up the decaying Ottoman dominions. True,...
Hürriyet Daily News | 01 July, 2013 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | Now that the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project has been selected over the ‘light” Nabucco as a transporter of the natural gas from Azerbaijan, the attention turns to the final investment decision regarding the development of the Shah...
Today's Zaman | June 19, 2012 | By Mehmet Öğütçü* We wasted more than a decade before putting the Nabucco gas pipeline project on the dusty shelves of energy diplomacy history. It was not aimed at finding a win-win proposition along the value chain for the producers, host...