Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkey’s opposition presidential candidate, said in an interview with the Youtube channel: daddy tvAccording to him, the establishment of a gas center is dangerous for the country and threatens its energy independence.
“I will not object to good relations with Moscow, on the contrary, in some areas, such as the petrochemical industry, aluminum, they received technological infrastructure from the Russian Federation. However, I am against Turkey’s dependence on Russia for energy,” he said.
He noted that this type of dependency is “extremely” dangerous and could create serious problems for Ankara in the future when it rises from 30-40 percent to 70-80 percent, as Kılıçdaroğlu estimated.
At the same time, the presidential candidate offered to sell gas from fields in the Eastern Mediterranean to European countries at a discount.
Earlier, Fatih Dönmez, Head of the Turkish Ministry of Energy, said that it is the hub of natural gas supply to Europe via the country, including the volumes lost in transit over Nord Stream. will work maximum throughout the year