Turkey's foreign policy under Davutoğlu rests on four pillars: regional security, political integration, economic interdependence, and multilateralism. The energy ministry plans to cut import dependence through pipeline networks, nuclear power, and renewables, while positioning Turkey as a regional energy hub with Ceyhan port as a global distribution center.
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In petroleum and other liquid consumption, we can see the production is almost fixed, but we can see some increase in consumption. For better understanding in energy policy in Turkish new foreign policy, we have to look Turkish new foreign policy under Davutoglu era. As Chair tell me to talk about my— and it is when I interviewed about the Turkish new foreign policy. The main pillar of Turkish new foreign policy is the first one, regional security and freedom for all, which the second one includes the inclusive political guiding and integration through a newly established strategy council meeting up cabinet minister. Third one, economic interdependence. AKP sees economic interdependence is the the best way to sustain peace. The last one, multilateral impulse, which suggests that if Europe wants to remain politically relevant and culturally vibrant and avoid the clash of civilizations, Muslim Turkey must be EU member. Now we can see Turkish new energy policy. The Strategic Plan prepared by Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources Turkey is trying to reduce its dependence on external energy import by diversification resource, multiply pipeline and nuclear energy. To maintain sufficient, cheap, continuous, sustainable and environment-friendly energy base of energy security. To cover energy needs from domestic and renewable energy. To replace natural power plant with nuclear power plant. Liberalization of energy market. To secure supply by increasing storage system. You can see the next slide, Turkey has a problem in storage system. To increase productivity and apply energy-saving measures.
The target of strategic plan prepared by MERA is to become an energy corridor, utilizing our geopolitical location to become transit country. It, it has not been become an energy hub and make Ceyhan as a sufficient port light on surrounding the long term to make Ceyhan an energy distribution center for global energy market. As I mentioned before, the energy policy has a main role in Turkish new foreign policy. AKP administration is also in development, taking energy into account and paying more attention in the Turkey foreign, new foreign policy. You can see some energy perspective issue in Turkey foreign policy. The first one, new foreign FAM we can see, which might be related to Turkey's strategy to use energy as a leverage to foster regional economic cooperation.
