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ECO summit will show whether Turkey-Iran alliance is possible
11.03.2009 14:47 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 10th Economic Cooperation Organization summit
will show whether a Turkey-Iran alliance is possible, a Russian expert
said.
`This meeting will be collision of great-power Persian nationalism,
flavored with tough ideology of Shiite Islam, against great-power
Turkish nationalism assimilating the Summi heritage,’ said Yevgeni
Satanovsky, president of the institute of Middle East studies at the
RF academy of sciences.
`Transit of Iranian gas through Turkey is not a Nabucco issue. It’s a
key to relations between Russia and EU, U.S and Turkmenistan,
Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan,’ he said.
`Turkey is a crossroad of strategic interests of world powers. Its
position will determine the balance of forces in the region. Turkey is
no longer satisfied with the role of NATO right-wing member, standing
in a queue for European Union membership. It sounds its neighbors,
develops alliances and causes clashes between rivals,’ Satanovsky
said, Kommersant daily reports.
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