{"id":22202,"date":"2014-12-01T03:40:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T02:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=22202"},"modified":"2014-12-01T03:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T02:53:06","slug":"22202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/22202\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Dances with Russia on Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nerdun Hac\u0131o\u011flu<\/span> writes from Moscow:\u00a0 <\/span>Turkey wants to renew the bilateral gas agreement with Russia rather than requesting a discount in the existing deals.\u00a0 Gazprom and Turkey\u2019s BOTA\u015e have been discussing the deals.\u00a0 Turkey wants to renew the existing gas deal with Russia on a new principle of price setting, rather than asking for a gas discount.\u00a0 Gazprom will decide to accept or reject this idea.<\/p>\n

Turkey has acted in the opposite direction of the western countries about Russia. And Turkey does not create any problems with the South Stream gas pipeline, noted Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Akkuyu nuclear power plant project constitutes one of the building stones of the economic relations between the two countries. A new industrial sector has been born in Turkey. The project will be completed in line with the pre-defined plans. Loans can be secured to finance the project from other countries than the western countries,\u201d he said.\u00a0 Novak also noted the bilateral trade is in favor of Russia.\u00a0 \u201cSome $18 billion of goods and services were exported from Russia to Turkey in the last nine months of this year. This figure is quite high, as the total of the trade volume was $23.7 billion. This is mainly caused by Turkey\u2019s huge energy imports,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

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Nerdun Hac\u0131o\u011flu writes from Moscow:\u00a0 Turkey wants to renew the bilateral gas agreement with Russia rather than requesting a discount in the existing deals.\u00a0 Gazprom and Turkey\u2019s BOTA\u015e have been discussing the deals.\u00a0 Turkey wants to renew the existing gas … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t