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Monday, October 10, 2011

The New Rules: Turkey's Long Game in the Cyprus Gas Dispute

The New Rules: Turkey's Long Game in the Cyprus Gas Dispute
By Thomas P.M. Barnett | 10 Oct 2011

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"Resource wars" enthusiasts worldwide have a new -- and unexpected -- poster child: "zero problems with neighbors" Turkey. The Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is beside itself over Israel's recent moves to cooperate with Cyprus on surveying its Eastern Mediterranean seabed for possible natural gas deposits thought to be lying adjacent to the reserves discovered last year off the coast of Haifa.

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