VOL. XLIV

No 51

17-December-2001

IRAN/TURKEY

Iran Starts Gas Exports To Turkey

After a two-year delay, shipmentsof Iranian natural gas to Turkey began on 10 December.Turkeys agreement to buy Iranian gas wasoriginally signed in 1996 by former prime minister Necmitten Erbakan anddeliveries were to begin by end-1999.However, Turkey was unable to take delivery when it failed to completethe portion of the pipeline connecting its national gas grid with the Iraniangas pipeline at the border (MEES, 17...