Ooopsala - almost escaped my attention: Turkey is to pipe Turkmenian gas via Iran to Europe, putting an affront to both Washington and Russia, both of which compete with their own pipeline intentions that mirror very different strategic considerations.
Nice perspectives for Europe. It has nothing to control in this, it seems. Is anyone worried of that?
"Noooooooo..."
But NATO cannot be happy either. Turkey brakes with NATO policies concerning Iran with this stunt.
Iran:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id...onid=351020204
Turkey:
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/a...?enewsid=78555
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/a...?enewsid=78743
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/a...?enewsid=78640
Links simply taken over from a Grman essay I just stumbled over.
If you want to press your way into the EU and have a dominant word in it: make yourself indispensable and always have the finger close to the trigger. Or the gas tap, in this case.