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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Turkey’s Energy Agenda

Abstract Turkey’s energy policy has attracted a growing scholarly interest. In line with this tendency, this article aims at the assessment of Turkey’s energy relations with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). As the SCO has appeared more frequently in Turkish foreign policy discourse in the recent years, it can be considered a relevant direction where Turkey’s active energy diplomacy can be assessed. Provided that Turkey’s energy aspirations are predominantly assessed from a Western point of view, the uniqueness of this article is that it combines the study of Turkey’s advancing Eastern relations and its energy policy endeavours. A central argument in this article is about the existing number of energy connections established between Turkey and the member states, observers and dialogue partners of SCO, which overwhelmingly operate at the bilateral level, while the energy framework of the SCO is yet to be filled with multilateral meaning for Turkey.