Turks, Turkmens, Azeris to meet for European gas
ASHGABAT – The Associated Press
Mustafa Kapucu, Turkey’s envoy to Turkmenistan, has said that the three-way summit will happen later this year.
The preferred proposed westward pipeline route for Turkmen gas would cross the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan, from where it would feed into Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline.
Turkmenistan, an ex-Soviet republic sitting atop one of the world’s largest gas fields, exports most of its gas to China and a small amount to Iran. It wants to build another pipeline across Afghanistan toward Pakistan and India, although security issues have put the viability of that project in severe doubt.