Boiling Waters: Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, and Turkey Assoc Prof. Haktan BRSEL.

Since the 21st century, the Eastern Mediterranean, which has historically been of great importance to world trade, has turned into strategic geography in terms of energy supply routes and resources. Because the safe and uninterrupted routes that are desired to be used for dominating and transmitting energy resources to global markets have a variable nature. Since the 20th century, the issue of transferring resources of energy is particularly important. In the last years of the 20th century, after the dissolution of the USSR, the issue of transferring energy resources left its stable position. After World War II all economic and political regimes that were put forward as part of the extraction and use of resources were shaken to a critical level that would require re-evaluation.

To date, an effective balance system has not been established in terms of both extracting resources and the reach of global markets. This imbalance is seen as a highly dangerous development by the global users of oil and natural gas. To minimize the danger, it is in the first place to solve the problem of creating balanced and safe transfer routes.

Therefore, in the decade following 1990, all power centers have made an effort to create an effective mechanism for resource extraction focusing on sharing the resources of the Middle East and Caspian energy basins in this area and enough success has been achieved to create a partial balance. However, the issue of delivering resources to global markets has never been balanced. It seems to be of great importance especially for European Union countries, which are having trouble meeting the growing energy needs and they are seeking remedies to get rid of dependence on the Russians. In the last decade, the European Union has been working on various alternatives to bring the Caspian resources to its territory by deactivating the threat mechanisms.

In this context, after members of the Eastern Mediterranean and Southern Cyprus in the European Union, the island of Cyprus has gained the first place of importance for transferring energy resources. Therefore, the issue of energy resources and features of the Eastern Mediterranean as a transmission center will be discussed in the study. Today, the events of the Arab Spring and terrorism are very problematic in this region and Cyprus is controlling this geography. At the same time, the European Union wants to be effective in the Mediterranean via GKRY. Therefore, the energy of the island of Cyprus is indispensable to obtaining economic markets and the Mediterranean.

Eastern Mediterranean as a Geopolitical Value Throughout history, the Mediterranean has been the center of attraction for the power centers that have consistently ruled the world. Because it is a basin of civilization since it enables mutual transferring of cultural and commercial values between the eastern and western world. In general, among the seas around the world maybe this feature has created the opportunity for the Mediterranean to have very intense traffic. The Mediterranean is an inland sea with enormous dimensions.

Through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Cebeli Tariq, it can be connected to the seas and civilizations around the world. By its connections to the Aegean and Adriatic seas in vertical scales, it connects Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Anatolian peninsula, and therefore the Asian continent, and can spread all kinds of developments directly to these areas.

Therefore, the Mediterranean has become one of the most strategic points of the world because of its ability to...

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