@cjm:
then the turkish military had better get busy on the islamicists running the place

Better yet, have both the Ataturkistes and the Islamists cooperating in democratic competition. There is no deep reason for Turkic “Islamists” to prefer Persians or Arabs over their Turkic ethnic relatives around the Caspian and all the way through Uigher-land to Wu-Wei, Western bastion of the Han Chinese.

Azerbaijani’s speak Azeri, a Turkic language that is mutually intelligible with Turkish, right? (Poor, starving Armenia!)

Is there? I mean, it’s dem Turkic peoples whots gots da gaz! “Tran-Turkistan”, gotta love it. They’ll probably have an international anthem written in beguiling semi-tones. Maybe Bono will cover it!