Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey and Azerbaijan created an energy corridor connecting the East and the West in the form of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline.
In his words, realization of the TANAP project was essential for world energy security. The project consists of constructing a pipeline to transport Azerbaijani gas from Shah Deniz to Europe through Turkey.