Greek Minister of Development Christos Folias, right, Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, second right, Turkish Prime minister Recep Tayip Erdogan, third right, and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, second left, press the bottom that open the power during an inauguration of a pipeline bringing Azeri gas from Turkey to Greece at the Ipsala border crossing. The 300-kilometer (186-mile) pipeline will provide the European Union with its first supply of gas from the Caspian region, bypassing Russia and the volatile Middle East. It will link the Greek and Turkish networks, and eventually carry gas from Azerbaijan to Italy.