Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

Turkey hopes to establish itself as a kind of energy supermarket, betting that controlling oil routes, with the great help of the BTC pipeline, will turn out to be as strategically valuable as producing the stuff.
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If Iraq is restructured into six states as the Council On Foreign Relations recommends and the Kurds become an independent state in northern Iraq much to Turkey’s chagrin are we looking at a tradeoff?
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Turkey gets to be an energy supermarket if they go along with the Kurdish state? Since we need Turkey’s allegiance, Turkey will have to be given something big, I am wondering if this is it and more importantly will Turkey consider this an even trade?