Pipeline Problems: Is Turkey's TurkStream Project Doomed to Fail?
Pipeline Problems: Is Turkey’s TurkStream Project Doomed to Fail? Although couched in sound geostrategic reasoning, TurkStream has encountered no shortage of obstacles since its inception in late 2015. The TurkStream pipeline was launched in 2020 to replace the failed South Stream initiative but is now in danger of suffering a fate similar to its predecessor. Decades before the 2014 Euromaidan and the present crisis in relations between Russia and the West, the Kremlin has long had to grapple with one of the core challenges of Russian policy: how to transit natural gas into Europe as cheapl...