The New Rules: Turkey's Long Game in the Cyprus Gas Dispute

"Resource wars" enthusiasts worldwide have a new -- and unexpected -- poster child: "zero problems with neighbors" Turkey. The Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is beside itself over Israel's recent moves to cooperate with Cyprus on surveying its Eastern Mediterranean seabed for possible natural gas deposits thought to be lying adjacent to the reserves discovered last year off the coast of Haifa.

I told Reuters last week that the mounting war of words between Turkey and Israel, which includes some clear military preparations, amounts to a "storm in a teacup." But other respected experts quoted in the article sounded some legitimate alarms.   ...