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East meets west.(Turkey bridging the gap between Europe and Asia)(World)
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July 20, 1998
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Beneath the Caspian Sea is a vast supply of oil that the world will soon need to access. If the United States can improve relations with long-neglected Turkey, they can create a more direct and efficient oil pipeline to benefit both countries.
Turkey's leaders are pushing their country as a westernized bridge between Asia and Europe that could open up the vast oil wealth of the Caspian Sea.
The 15th century B.C. Egyptian obelisk still stands at the end of the Hippodrome in Istanbul's old city, where it was set up in A.D. 390 by the Emperor Theodosius to mark the center of the Western World. By that time the city already was the capital of the Roman Empire, leaving Rome on the ...
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