Oil Flows Through Turkey Energy Corridor Unhindered as Coup Ends
- Shipping lanes are said to be uninterrupted following unrest
- Authorities call for vigilance against second coup attempt
A tanker ship passes beaneath a bridge over the Bosporus shipping channel in Istanbul, Turkey in 2011.
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Oil is flowing unhindered through Turkey’s pipelines and waterways, one of the world’s largest energy trading corridors, after a coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed.
The Turkish straits are open to shipping traffic, an official at the Istanbul-based shipping center said by phone ON Saturday. Crude oil shipments from Azerbaijan and Iraq into Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan are operating normally, a port agent said as BP Plc, operator of the Baku-Tifilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, confirmed the oil flow was uninterrupted.