Energy cooperation agreements were signed between Turkey and China during President Abdullah Gül's six-day visit to China in June 2009. This transaction marked the beginning of a new period between the two countries. Read more »

Asia has always held a special place in Turkish foreign policy, but Turkey has never been able to pursue active politics that are specifically geared toward Asia in general and South Asia in particular because of the distance factor as well as some domestic issues and other problems nearby. Read more »

Vienna, 11 February 2010 - Protecting critical energy infrastructure from terrorist attacks is the focus of an OSCE workshop, in which the Member of Stratim Executive Board and Energy Security Director of BTC Co. Turkey Hasan Alsancak also participated, for public and private sector experts that started in Vienna today. Read more »

Hasan Alsancak, Member of Stratim Executive Board and Energy Security Director of BTC Co. Turkey, made a presentation titled as “Pipeline Security and Turkey” under the scope of “Fall School: Developing Foreign Policy on Energy Issues” organised by Netherlands Institute for Higher Education NIHAnkara on September 28 - October 1, 2009. Read more »

After Osama bin Laden's call for attacks against oil, in December 2004, and Ayman al-Zawahiri repeated the call in autumn 2005, al-Qaeda's terrorist attack to Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia's giant oil processing facility, was the first direct attack by al-Qaeda. Even if the attack was announced a failed terrorist attack by official Saudi statements, on news of the attempted attack, the price of crude oil leapt as much as 3.4%. The attack was not only proof of vulnerability of Saudi oil but also importance of oil targets by terrorist elements. Read more »