Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev inaugurated today a new gas pipeline that will transport natural gas from the province of Iğdır in Turkey to the Republic of Nakhchivan, a strategic autonomous enclave that has been part of the territory of Azerbaijan for a century but does not share any border with this country, being surrounded by Armenia, Turkey and Iran.
The Iğdır-Nakhchivan gas pipeline (Iğdır-Nahçıvan Gaz Boru Hattı, in Turkish) ‘will complement previous strategic projects in the energy sector between Turkey and Azerbaijan,’ said Erdoğan during a ceremony held in Ankara, which was echoed by numerous media outlets. ‘We are bringing our countries a project that will guarantee the energy security of Nakhchivan for a long time,’ said the Turkish president.
Construction work on the gas pipeline, which connects the Turkish province of Iğdır with Sederek in Nakhchivan, was inaugurated by Erdoğan and Aliyev at the end of September 2023. The gas pipeline is 85 kilometres long and has capacity to transport 500 million cubic metres of natural gas per year. Its construction was made possible thanks to a collaboration between the Turkish oil corporation BOTAŞ and the Azerbaijani SOCAR.
The Iğdır-Nakhchivan gas pipeline is the third natural gas transport project to be carried out jointly by Turkey and Azerbaijan, following the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline and the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP).
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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