| Sumario: | 69 Turkey was not importing oil from Iran, but the Consortium member companies were Turkey's suppliers from Iraq (sixty percent), Saudi Arabia (twenty-five percent), and Libya (fifteen percent). John v. bowlus Shifting Energy-Security Priorities and the Iran-Turkey Pipeline Scheme, 1967-1971 On January 31, 1969, Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi met in Zurich with representatives from the British-American-French-Dutch-owned Iran Oil Consortium (hereafter the "Consortium") to discuss a variety of issues, including the proposal to build an oil pipeline from Iran to Turkey. Such a project would have had obvious benefits in deepening bilateral Iranian-Turkish oil relations and buffeting both countries' oil security - oildemand security for Iran and oil-supply security for Turkey - from the politics of the Arab world. 8 Yet Turkey possesses natural traits that make it a favorable oil-transit state, and has never disrupted oil flows, except during the United Nations-backed sanctions against Iraq from 1990-1996.It has hosted direct-import oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan and Russia and became a gas-transit state for Europe in 2019 with the inauguration of the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline. Oil-producing countries sought to grow and export increasing volumes to enrich themselves, while oil-consuming countries sought to harness oil to fuel their militaries and grow their economies.
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