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The United States is pressuring Turkey to end energy imports from Russia.
During yesterday's meeting between US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the two US officials "noted President Trump's call for all NATO allies to stop buying Russian energy in order to help end the war in Ukraine."
Turkey is the third largest importer of Russian crude oil after China and India, while importing large quantities of Russian natural gas. Cooperation also extends to the field of nuclear energy, as the unit under construction in Akkuyu is the result of a Russian-Turkish intergovernmental agreement and is based on Russian technology.
According to government sources, this is the second time in just two months that Washington has publicly pressured Ankara to stop importing hydrocarbons from Russia.
The same sources recall that "the first slap came during Trump's meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in late September at the White House."
"The best thing he could do is not buy oil and gas from Russia," Trump said at the time.
Oil, petroleum products, and gas sales have traditionally been a very large part of Russian budget revenues and a critical source of financing the war in Ukraine.
Greece's energy strategy
The continued US pressure on Turkey comes at a time when the Greek government's effort to strengthen Greek-American energy cooperation in the Mediterranean is being implemented and while Washington's strategic effort to displace Russia from the position of the main, in some cases monopolistic, energy provider in Eastern and Southeastern Europe continues.
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