"MIDEAST: Turkey Gets Boost from Pipeline Politics
Analysis by Helena Cobban*
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - The political geography of the modern Middle East has been affected for one hundred years by the appetite of westerners and other outsiders for the region's hydrocarbons.
On Monday, the region's 'pipeline politics' took another step forward with the signing in Turkey's capital, Ankara, of an agreement to build a new, 3,300-kilometre gas pipeline called Nabucco, running between eastern Turkey and Vienna, Austria."
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