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Reports Say Turkey, Iran Reach Accord On Gas To Europe
July 15, 2007
Iranian natrual-gas facility at South Pars (file photo) (epa)
Anatolia news agency quotes Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler as saying a memorandum was signed in Ankara on July 13.
The deal is seen as boosting prospects for the planned Nabucco pipeline, which would carry gas from the Middle East and Central Asia to the European Union via Turkey and the Balkans, bypassing Russia.
(AFP)