Energy Factor in Syrian Conflict
This article is dedicated to the problem of influence of the energetic issue on the Syrian civil war (2011-2014). Considering military and political conflicts of the contemporary Middle East the author makes emphasis on geopolitical and geoeconomic’s factors. The author makes analysis of the Iranian and Qatari export gas potentials and competitious projects of the Iranian and Qatari gas pipelines. To his opinion support of the Syrian radical jihadi groups by Turkey and Qatar are depended on the refusal of the Syrian government to fulfill obligations concerning the Qatari gas pipeline and Syrian connection to the Iranian Islamic gas pipeline. Competition between Islamic gas pipeline and Nabucco pipeline led to the exacerbation of the Turkish-Syrian relations and preconditioned support of the Syrian military opposition by the Turkish government.