Bulgaria's decision to freeze its long-term agreement with Turkish gas company Botas is not necessarily a move away from Turkey as an energy supplier, but could instead be an effort to renegotiate the cost and risk of maintaining access to its gas infrastructure, according to Turkish energy expert Gökçe Nur Ataman. The future of the agreement could become a test both for Turkish-Bulgarian relations and for the broader question of how much Europe is prepared to pay for energy security, Ataman argues in an analysis reported by BGNES.

While Bulgaria isn’t walking away from Türkiye’s gas capacity, it is using new geopolitical leverage to renegotiate the price of energy security

Bulgaria's decision to freeze its long-term agreement with Turkish gas company Botas is not necessarily a move away from Turkey as an energy supplier, but could instead be an…