After the Nabucco project, another vital gas pipeline for the EU has been approved by Turkey.
You can see it as the latest demonstration of Turkey's stronger position as a new, major player in international politics.
An energy hub.
Or you can consider it as yet another averment of a centuries-old argument, suggesting that Turkey is a political, economical, cultural and social junction.
A crossroad.
Both may be true.
Especially as long as you look at the photo above, with Hurriyet's headline, "The signatures of the century," as well as reading the story here.
So you will realize: In the same day, three interesting people were here:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...
And Patrizia d'Addario, the Italian escort girl who slept with Berlusconi on a bed which was a gift of Putin, being the guest of a live TV show in Turkey!..
