Putin and Erdogan discussed Turkish Stream and energy development

On the sidelines of the G20 summit in China, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have the Turkish Stream project and energy development, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, RT reported.

The Turkish Stream project is a proposed natural gas pipeline from southern Russia across the Black Sea to Thrace in Turkey, which was suspended in 2015 following the downing of a Russian military jet by Turkey.

“They discussed the Turkish Stream - the thing is that a great number of permits were issued for the South Stream route. Now the only thing that is to change is the name of the project and we need to reissue those permissions and that will substantially speed up the process. The route hasn’t changed, the name of the project has,” Peskov said. South Stream is an abandoned pipeline project to transport natural gas from Russia to Europe.

The leaders paid special attention to energy development, and particularly, to the expanded supply of oil that may be carried out by Russia’s Rosneft oil giant.