Your three-page article on European energy security focuses on Russian gas (“A Bear at the Throat,” April 14, 2007), as it should. Indeed, Russia is the key strategic partner to watch when gas is in question. But there is another key partner you appear loath to mention: Turkey. One look at your own map of major European gas pipelines makes clear Turkey’s strategic position. Still, it appears in your analysis only twice—the first time in the context of the planned Nabucco pipeline, which would bring Russian gas to Hungary via Turkey, and the second time in the context of the gas from Azerbaijan, which comes to Turkey via Georgia, and which would again be connected to Hungary by means of the Nabucco pipeline. However, you do not even mention it in the context of the proposed trans-Caspian pipeline, which would connect Turkey to the gas-rich Central Asia. Given that Turkey has long been a candidate for the European Union membership, this is rather curious. If Russia is an awkward strategic partner, Turkey is undoubtedly a less awkward one. And a potential savior of Europe in terms of energy security.