Turkey's sudden dislike of its decades old ally Israel and sudden desire to be a ME 'leader' over countries such as Egypt, Syria and Lebanon becomes very clear. But it's too late, the US, the EU, Russia and Israel have all expressed their support for Cyprus' sovereign right to drill within its EEZ and Egypt has underlined its promise to uphold all energy related agreements it made with Cyprus. There is now nothing Turkey can do diplomatically or militarily to stop this. The billions of dollars generated by such a project and the billions of dollars saved by EU states from having another source of energy, closer to the EU than other energy streams, and coming from a fellow EU member state will help regenerate recession hit EU states. In short - 'Money talks, Turkish regional ambition walks'.
