To tilt this politics of temporality in favour of the energy infrastructures, the government initiated legal interventions, aiming to speed up administrative law with the goal of securing a healthy energy supply for the nation and the seamless accumulation of capital.

The seepage of Turkey’s energy-politics into the judiciary strengthens the government’s hegemony at the expense of checks and balances. Thus, energy has become one of the main pillars of the government’s authoritarian statecraft, redefining the relations between nature and society, productive and idle, urgent and mundane.