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Italy may impede Turkish-Azeri efforts for EU gas corridor

Turkey and Azerbaijan realize EU's gas corridor dream, but serious questions remain unanswered.
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The sun-parched west Anatolian plain is not the likeliest of settings for the realization of a 20-year-old plan for a gas pipeline linking the gas-rich countries of the Caspian with European markets.

But it was here that the presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan formally commissioned the first delivery stage of the 1,850-kilometer (1,149-mile) Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) — in the process realizing the European Union's long-held dream of the Southern Gas Corridor.

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