Çalik Enerji is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 energy company of the Çalık Holding

Çalik Holding

Çalık Holding A.Ş is a Turkish conglomerate based in Istanbul, active in the sectors of textiles, energy, construction, finance, logistics and media. Through its ventures in and outside of Turkey, Çalık employs a total of 19,000 people . The CEO of Çalık Holding, Berat Albayrak. Albayrak is the...

, which was established in 1998. The main areas of operations include:

• oil and gas exploration
  Oil exploration
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  , production, transportation
  Pipeline transport
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  , and distribution;
• power generation
  Electricity generation
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  , transmission
  Electric power transmission
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  , and distribution; power design and engineering;
• telecommunications service
  Telecommunications service
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  s.

Çalik Enerji has oil and gas exploration and production activities in Turkey, Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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, and Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

 (notably in the Ýolöten Gas Field). It constructs together with Italian

Italy

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 company Eni

Eni

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 the Samsun-Ceyhan Pipeline to transport crude oil from the Black Sea

Black Sea

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 to Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

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. It also operates power plants

Power station

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in Turkey and Turkmenistan.