Turkey has aspired to become regional energy hub and corridor for last two decades. The recent political upheaval that witnessed the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s government from the country has opened the door for Turkey to realise its old ambition with access to regional energy markets.
On 30th July 2025 the Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced “We will start exporting natural gas from Azerbaijan to Aleppo via Kilis,” a province in southernmost Türkiye near the Syrian border, starting from 2 August 2025.The singing of the Türkiye -Syria natural gas agreement is backed financially by Qatar,…

