Gee, how mean of the Russians! /sarc
Too bad our “leaders” don’t have near the guts of the Russian leaders.
More likely, Obama’s ISIL fiends.
Screw the Turks.
Screw Turkey. Let them shiver in the cold and eat their halal food raw!
There would be several years of lead time and large investments required for Turkey to build the port, storage and transport infrastructure to get their gas from tanker ships instead of pipelines.
The US export capability for LNG is just fixing to come on line significantly over the next several years, after several years of lead time efforts. They are big construction projects, with long review and approval processes.
Even in countries that don’t have bureaucratic delays, there are usually similarly long delays while the politics, prices, and kickback amounts are negotiated. Turkey could probably move quickly on a political decision because Erdogan already has things sewn up there, but lining up financing and completing construction is still a multi-year effort.
Turkey just re-established diplomatic ties with Israel (last week), looking to get linked to the large proven Israeli Leviathan Gas Field, which is now entering development, so that might turn on for them in 2017 or 2018, if they hurry.
It would still serve them to have the diversification that comes from tanker ports, because the tankers could come from anywhere (Qatar is the world leader now, but the USA is a rising star).
This Winter though, Russia really has a lever over the Turks. They have used gas as a diplomatic weapon before.
(’would deprive Turkey`s electrical grid of the power it needs to run...’) GOOD! They can try running an extension cord from that place those muslim terrorists are all ways citing. Now what`s that name..., oh yeah, allah`s snackbar!