In 2019, the state-owned Turkish oil and gas pipeline corporation BOTAŞ started a project to build a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, called a floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) terminal, in the northeastern shore of the Gulf of Saros, northern Aegean Sea, between the Cape Bekirçavuş and Köpekli Creak.

[3] In addition to the 270 m (890 ft)-long pier, the Saros FSRU terminal consists of a breakwater and a berth on earth filling for mooring of tugboats and pilot boats.

[3][12] In the course of the court case, three separate expert reports were presented revealing that the project was contrary to many aspects of civil engineering, agriculture, fishery,[5] geology, hydrogeology, biology and forestry.

The construction of the FSRU terminal project continued in the Gulf of Saros despite the court decision and the expert reports expressing negative views.

By March 2020, the Administrative Court of Edirne ruled that the FSRU terminal construction project in the Gulf of Saros was against the public interest law and science, and cancelled the Environmental impact assessment (EIA) report ("Çevresel Etki Değerlendirmesi ÇED raporu") from 31 May 2018,[8] which had a positive attitude for the construction.

[14] On 31 May 2022, "Saros Volunteers Solidarity", supported by the Keşan City Council, visited all political parties in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara, and presented a file.

A parliamentary research proposal was submitted by the opposition parties on 15 June 2022 to "investigate the damage to people and nature in the Gulf of Saros caused by the BOTAŞ project".

[8] According to environmental organizations, more than ten thousand trees were cut down in the forest area as a 17 km (11 mi)-long land pipeline was laid.