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Azerbaijan is in the TANAP, TAP, and South Stream Project Triangle at the Deadlock of Nabucco



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Osman SÖNMEZ, Elnur Hasan MİKAİL, Cihan KÜCÜKYILDIZ

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DOI:10.17265/1537-1506/2013.12.003

Osman SÖNMEZ, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Atatürk Principles and Reforms Application Center, Selçuk University.
Elnur Hasan MİKAİL, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Kars Kafkas University; Founder and President of TURAN-CSR (TURAN-SAM).
Cihan KÜCÜKYILDIZ, Bachelor’s Student, Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Kars Kafkas University; Vice President of TURAN-CSR (TURAN-SAM).

This study has been investigated some pipeline lines after collapsing process of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from Azerbaijan to Europe and another alternative ways from Russia. As we know Russia is a big power as from economic, defensive, and political aspects, as that’s in ruler position in the region. So, USA from another side of the world as a super power of the world could make dimension of those pipelines from transit of Turkey. That’s why new Nabucco project has been also cancelled by Russia’s power. This article has been studied newly established project of Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Line Project (TANAP) from Azerbaijan’s oil and gas department, Ministry’s State Petroleum Company’s (SOCAR) project has not been cancelled by Turkish Petroleum Company (TPAO). So TANAP’s advantages and disadvantages have been researched in this article.

Azerbaijan, Nabucco, Russia, State Petroleum Company (SOCAR), Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Line Project (TANAP), Turkey, USA