Pipeline politics boosts Turkey's profile in Europe

Ceyhan reeks of gas and oil. It is the same smell that permeates the old oil town Baku on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, where some of the oil originates that is stored here in Ceyhan. The citizens of Ceyhan had better get used to the smell. This Turkish oil complex on the eastern Mediterranean coast is fast becoming a major energy hub. Like Turkey itself.

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