Geopolitics of Gas and Turkey Intervention in Syria

In January 2011, the Tunisian Revolution started an unrest which soon spread to the rest of Middle East and North African Regions. I order to gain political power, a severe competition between regional and trans-regional powers took place in Syria in March 2011. The Turkish-Syrian relations grew darker in the past six years. This study tries to find the reasons of Turkey’s non-constructive intervention in Syria between August 2011 and the end of 2015. The hypothesis of this article assumes that Turkey considers Syria as a gateway to the Middle Eastern energy, thus, Ankara seeks a compatible government in Syria to help it become an energy hub. Cancellation the Arab-gas pipeline from Qatar to Turkey by Assad in order to replace it with that’s of Iran, revealed the fact that Syria is not a reliable partner for Turkey. Hence, from the beginning of the crisis, Turkey has developed the policy of overthrow Assad.