Putin, Erdogan review energy cooperation plans
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks Wednesday, at which they agreed on deepening the two countries' energy cooperation. According to the Interfax news agency, Putin said afterwards that the two countries aim to bring Italy on as a partner in the planned trans-Anatolia oil pipeline project. The pipeline would link Turkey's Samsun port on the Black Sea with its Mediterranean coastal city Ceyhan, some 400 kilometres directly ...