Turkey mediation between Baku and Ashgabat

Turkey has initiated the role as mediator of the controversies that currently exist between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan concerning the claim of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over the gas field in the Caspian Sea "Kiapaz" in Azerbaijan and "Serdar" in Turkmenistan. The major reason for the discrepancy is the problem of not distributing the Caspian Sea basin between the five Caspian countries: Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan.