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...
Turkish Policy Quarterly | 28 November 2013 | Mehmet Öğütçü The Game-Changers in World Energy: Geopolitical Implications The forward march of globalization has paused since the financial crisis, giving way to a more conditional, interventionist, and nationalist model of development. The geopolitical scene is strongly affected by factors related...
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...
Turkish Policy Quarterly | Fall 2003 Mehmet Öğütçü | Let’s make no mistake: Corruption is a global virus inflicting, in varying degrees, all countries, developing and developed alike. With their strict property rights, mature institutions and well-paid civil servants; developed countries are less likely to suffer from systemic...
GMF | Research & Analysis Archive | 11 June, 2012 Mehmet Ögütçü Summary: The discovery of large gas reserves off the coasts of Israel and Cyprus posed a number of dilemmas for Turkey. Its response reflected both resource rivalry and underlying political conflicts. Turkey and its neighbors need to avoid...
TODAY'S ZAMAN | 16 April, 2012 | Mehmet ÖĞÜTÇÜ | Perhaps for the first time in our lifetime, the next London mayoral election, the fourth since the office of Mayor of London was created in 2000, represents a landmark opportunity for the Turkish community in this city,...