Daily Memo: Turkey’s Major Discovery in the Black Sea

Ankara hopes the gas discovery will put it on the road to energy independence.

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Ankara’s big find. Turkey has discovered 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Black Sea, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday. The Fatih drill ship found the reserves, which Ankara hopes to put to public use by 2023, in a drilling zone called Tuna 1 on July 20. It could be a […]

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