{"id":3244,"date":"2010-01-13T17:28:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2010-01-13T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:29:30","slug":"prime-minister-erdogan-in-russia-for-gas-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/prime-minister-erdogan-in-russia-for-gas-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Erdogan in Russia for gas talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/turkey-prime-minister.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3245\" title=\"Prime Minister Erdogan in Russia for gas talks \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/turkey-prime-minister-280x208.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Erdogan in Russia for gas talks \" width=\"280\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/turkey-prime-minister-280x208.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/turkey-prime-minister.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Turkey&#8217;s growing strategic importance as a gas transporter is the focus of talks in Russia between the countries&#8217; leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan met Russia&#8217;s president and Prime Minister in Moscow, with energy high on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish government recently agreed to support Russian plans for a major new gas pipeline &#8211; South Stream &#8211; across the Black Sea into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the EU wants Turkey to join a rival pipeline project, Nabucco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The energy sphere has a very important significance,&#8221; Mr Erdogan said on meeting President Dmitry Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only in the sphere of natural gas, but in crude products there exists a whole series of opportunities&#8230; I see this meeting as a huge opportunity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Medvedev hailed the countries&#8217; &#8220;serious and major&#8221; co-operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian-Turkish relationship is improving. It is really a strategic partnership,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 6)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Erdogan in Russia for gas talks <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,68,63,51,118,184],"tags":[4241,4243,4244,1152,4242],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-economy","category-hot","category-turkey-economy","tag-prime-minister-erdogan","tag-prime-minister-in-moscow","tag-russian-turkish-relationship","tag-turkish-prime-minister","tag-turkish-prime-minister-recep-tayip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}