Hurriyet: US wants to see Turkey ‘on the same page’ on Russian gas

Russia is using natural gas as a political tool and the United States needs to know if it is “on the same page” with Turkey regarding Russia’s actions, a top U.S. energy envoy has said.

“What Europe desperately needs is the diversification of resources,” Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein told Hürriyet in a recent interview.

“Today you have a situation where European countries are reliant almost on one supplier. And it doesn’t really matter who the supplier is. It is never good for countries’ security to rely on one supplier or to be over-reliant on one. Especially when that supplier has a tendency to use its energy supply as a political tool,” he said.

Read the interview of Special Envoy Hochstein HERE