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One of the biggest aces up Turkey’s sleeve and they know it too, is they want to have their cake and eat it too. They got NATO protection by being in NATO; yet they have lucrative trade deals with Russia at the same time. Milking both sides as they can. Not to mention that Erdogan is an Islamist, playing all sides and against each other when it suits him.

That's the way the real world works. Did you ever wonder why Europe was so supportive of the Iran deal? Follow the money.

Iran seeks $30bn of new oil contracts

Iran has overhauled the way in which it offers contracts to foreign energy companies in a bid to attract up to $30bn of new investment.

The terms of the new oil contracts will be more favourable to foreign investors, who will be allowed a greater stake in long-term profits.

Iran is gearing up for the lifting of sanctions following the nuclear deal with six world powers in July.

The country has some of the biggest oil and gas reserves in the world.

The new contracts were announced at a conference in Tehran attended by many of the world's major energy companies, including BP, Shell, Total, Statoil and Sinopec. There were, however, no US companies present.

The energy majors are keen to exploit Iran's abundant reserves of oil.

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As much as I dislike the regime in iran, how the Europeans have appeased the regime along with successive U.S. admins, we were talking about Erdogan and Turkey in this case. And, Iran is not in NATO.