"BTC strategic link as Turkey's insurance policy
Sunday, August 6, 2006
Turkey’s strategic importance is a worn-out cliché. It became debatable in the early ’90s, in the post-Cold War period and more particularly after the dissolution of the USSR. Its importance started to gain currency again after the first military operation against Saddam and the Afghan offensive. When the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was first mooted, reactions were that it was an impossible project, perhaps even a pipe dream. Turkey’s position and its new role as a natural gas and oil corridor and perhaps even as an energy hub have brought the strategic importance paradigm back into full value as never before."
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