Türkiye’s president on Monday introduced the invention of an extra 58 billion cubic meters of pure fuel within the Black Sea.
“Our drill ship Fatih has explored 58 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, 3,023 meters under the sea, at the Caycuma 1 block,” mentioned President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following a Cabinet assembly on the Presidential Complex in Ankara.
Stressing that Türkiye’s pure fuel reserve within the Black Sea totals 710 billion cubic meters (25 trillion cubic toes) with a market worth of $1 trillion, Erdoğan mentioned the nation’s final objective is to declare power independence from overseas oil and pure fuel as quickly as potential.
“Our new exploration will pave the way for similar explorations in other geological fields adjacent to the region. We will launch new drilling as soon as possible,” Erdoğan added.
On the nation’s counterterrorism efforts, Erdoğan introduced that Türkiye “will close the gaps in our 30-kilometer (18.6-mile) deep security line and take new steps to completely eliminate the threats posed by (terrorist groups in) Syria to our country.”
“We will enter a new phase of struggle that will destroy the entire infrastructure and resources of the terrorist group (PKK and YPG/PKK), which it receives strength from, as well as its armed capacity,” he mentioned.
The PKK and its Syrian department the YPG/PKK have used terrorist bases throughout Türkiye’s border in northern Iraq and northern Syria to plot and perform assaults on Türkiye. Along the Syrian border, the group has labored to create a terrorist hall alongside the border, threatening each Syrian locals and close by Turkish residents.
In its greater than 35-year terror marketing campaign towards Türkiye, the PKK-listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the US, and EU-has been chargeable for the deaths of over 40,000 folks, together with ladies, kids, and infants.
Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of profitable anti-terror operations throughout its border in northern Syria to forestall the formation of a terror hall and allow the peaceable settlement of residents: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019). Turkish officers have steered one other such operation is coming.
