A Turkish coast guard boat, left in the foreground,

A Turkish coast guard boat, left in the foreground, is seen at the port of the BOTAS liquefied natural gas, LNG, import terminal in Marmara Ereglisi, near the city of Tekirdag, western Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Like Europe, Turkey is dependent on Russian gas supplies but when the flow stopped from the problematic Ukranian route, it simply asked Russia to increase shipment through an alternative gas pipeline that runs beneath the Black Sea. Turkey, having built alternative gas pipelines from Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan and also receives liquefied natural gas from Algeria, and hopes to become a secure energy corridor between the Central Asia and the Middle East to Europe.
AP Photo by Murad Sezer