Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has offered to connect the Turkish Stream pipeline, which is being developed by Russia, to the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), via which Azerbaijani gas will be delivered to Europe in 2020. Cavusoglu said Ankara would buy only 16 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year via the Turkish…
Discounts for Russia’s gas supplies to Turkey may become one of the issues discussed during the official visit of Turkish President to St. Petersburg. “During the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Russia, Moscow and Ankara may discuss the discount for Russian gas delivered to the country”, a source in the ministry said,…
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) plans to sign a memorandum on cooperation in the agriculture sector with a Turkish company, CEO Kirill Dmitriev said. “We’re in talks with a company that is willing to jointly invest in Russia’s agricultural sector, and we’re also planning to sign a memorandum”, he said, adding that the two…
87% of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway has been constructed in Turkey, Ahmet Arslan, Turkish minister of transport, shipping and communications, said. “The BTK is being constructed on schedule”, the minister said, adding that two bridges were being built over the Kars river. The minister stressed that the BTK railway project was of particular importance for…
JSC National Agency for Export and Investments Kaznex Invest which is a part of the Kazakh Investments and Development Ministry has accredited its representative office in Istanbul. Nuriddin Amankul has been appointed Chief of the representative office. As the press service of the Kazakh Embassy in Turkey said, Ambassador Zhansseit Tuimebayev met with N. Amankul…
Turkey is ready to initiate construction of the first line of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said. “We are open for construction of the first line of the Turkish Stream from standpoint of Turkey’s need for natural gas”, the Minister said. “Political decisions are in place to settle the…