Abstract
TRNC PUBLIC OPINION ON ENERGY POLICIES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
In line with the recent discovery of underground hydrocarbon resources, the Eastern Mediterranean has become an intense agenda in current international policy debates. Both global and regional actors have redefined the importance of the Eastern Mediterranean in general and Cyprus themselves, and for regional and international policy. In coordination with this, the number of academic studies that have tried to understand this new emphasis process has also increased a lot. Although this process was neglected academically, it was what the meaning of the people of Cyprus, especially the citizens of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), attributed to them, the island and their countries' relations with regional and global actors in the face of current developments. This study tries to understand how the people of Northern Cyprus perceive the current developments and how they are affected by these developments in order to contribute to the elimination of this deficiency. The study is based on the responses of 324 face-to-face surveys and expert interviews to be able to read with the local population in order to understand the perception and influence.
Keywords
Eastern Mediterranean, Energy Policy, TRNC, GCAS, Turkey
