Europe's dependence to Russian Federation in terms of energy supply security

Each passing day, global energy consumption is increasing rapidly. With shrinking energy sources, economies, which has insufficient energy reserves, are driven into struggles to dominate energy reserves and get obliged to import energy to meet their energy needs. Tendency towards the import of energy sources, which make economies dependent, is an unfavorable situation, which affects energy security negatively. In this scope, European Union and continental countries have begun to be dependent on Russian Federation, which use its energy sources as a diplomatic tool. Russian Federation, which determines its policies so as to be a super power of energy, and whose economy is growing with the income accumulating from the export of energy sources, is conducting policies to keep sustainability of energy export while also aiming to protect its national security and interests in the region. With this reason, while it is conducting policies not to lose its impact over its close neighborhood, where its interests lie, it is also trying to stay in cooperation with European continental countries, where most of its energy exports are transferred. In this scope, the explanation of the impacts of energy resources used as a diplomatic tool by the Russian Federation and the impact of energy import dependency on both national securities of European countries as well as on energy security constitute the main purpose of the thesis. The impact of Russian Federation?s energy policies, of the pipelines and of energy companies as well as the policies developed by European countries as a remedy to their increasing dependency are examined in detail. KEYWORDS : Energy Security, Energy Supply Security, Nonrenewable Energy Sources, European Union, Russian Federation, Energy Policies, Pipelines, Energy Coorperations, Renewable Energy Sources, Energy Diplomacy.