Turkey, Russia Sign Agreement for Turkish Stream Project
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Each giving a speech at the 23rd World Energy Congress organized in İstanbul, Russia’s Leader Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came separately to Mabeyn Mansion yesterday (October 10).
Meeting of Erdoğan and Putin started at 5:10 p.m. and lasted around 1 hour and 40 minutes.
The state-run Anadolu Agency reported that the deal on Turkish Stream Gas Pipeline Project was signed. Russian natural gas will be transferred to Turkey by the agreement.
The two leaders issued a press statement following the signing.
Erdoğan: Normalization will continue
President Erdoğan said, “Today we really had a day in full with Mr. President. I have full faith in that normalization process will continue rapidly”.
“We’ve discussed cooperation in Syria”
“We had the opportunity to discuss present situation in the region and Syrian issue. We talked about the Euphrates Shield operation, evaluated what sort of cooperation we can carry out”.
Putin: We’ve opened Russian market
Starting his speech with saying that “I congratulate my Turkish friends for successfully realizing a huge organization”, Putin said:
“As Russian government, we have opened market of citrus that is imported from Turkey. Russia doesn’t produce agricultural goods and our prices will fall when Turkey imports these from Russia”. (HK/TK)
Turkish Stream ProjectTurkish Stream is the working name of a proposed natural gas pipeline running from Southern Russian Krasnodar Region across the Black Sea to Turkish Thrace. Announced by Russian president Vladimir Putin on 1 December 2014, during his state visit to Turkey, the proposal is supposed to replace the earlier cancelled South Stream project. According to Gazprom, the project did not have an official name. In November 2015, following the Turkish shootdown of a Russian Su-24 aircraft in Syria, talks on the project were unilaterally suspended by the Russian side and in December 2015, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the Turkish Stream project would be formally abandoned. In late July 2016, following a reconciliation meeting in Moscow, both sides however put the project back on table |
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