“There is no problem in Turkish Stream’s implementation,” noted the Turkish president.
Earlier, Turkey’s Petroleum Pipeline Corporation BOTAS expressed readiness to participate in implementation of the Turkish Stream, but Russia’s Gazprom refused.
During his meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg Aug. 9, Erdogan noted that Turkey will implement the Turkish Stream project.
“The Turkish Stream will have two pipeline strings – through one of them the gas will be supplied for Turkey’s domestic consumption, and through another one the gas will be supplied to Europe,” he said.
Russia abandoned the South Stream project in favor of Turkish Stream in December 2014, which involves the construction of the gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey through the Black Sea.
However, the project was frozen after the relations between Moscow and Ankara deteriorated in November 2015.
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