Russian, Turkish foreign ministers meet in Serbia over downed jet

He expressed confidence that TANAP will change the region’s energy map.

Bulgaria has made clear it also plans to receiving gas from Azerbaijan via Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), a gas link with its southern neighbor which is expected to be in place over the next few years.

“So, we attach much importance to three mechanisms; Turkey-Azerbaijan-Georgia, Turkey-Azerbaijan-Iran and Turkey-Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan”, he added.

TANAP’s shareholder list will be as follows: SOCAR, 58 percent; Botas, 30 percent; and BP, 12 percent. “If Turkey considers it needs this project, it can contact us”, RIA Novosti quoted Miller as saying.

Davutoglu also referred to railway project Baku-Tbilisi-Kars, whose commissioning has been delayed because of Turkey.

Davutoglu also said Turkey is ready to discuss any issues with Russian Federation, “even if there are differences in opinion”.

A military orchestra played the national anthems of Turkey and Azerbaijan. “Each inch of Azerbaijan’s land is dear, and those lands should be liberated”, he noted.

Davutoglu said the sanctions would be detrimental to both sides.

“Our stance, as Turkey over Nagorno-Karabakh is clear”. Turkey is the second largest buyer of Russia’s natural gas, trailing only behind Germany.

The fallout comes after an intruding Russian SU-24 was shot down on November 24 by Turkish F-16s near the Syrian border after it ignored a total of ten warnings in five minutes.

Davutoglu pointed out that Russia’s accusations against Turkey that allegedly it stabbed Moscow in back, are groundless. “Turkey is confident that this crisis can be resolved through talks”.

Turkey’s prime minister says his country can’t be “brought to its knees” by Russian economic sanctions imposed in response to Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane.

Davutoğlu said later on Friday that German reconnaissance planes will soon arrive at Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base to support the US-led coalition’s fight against ISIL. “The plane was shot over Turkey’s territory”. “Work on formulating agreements on TurkStream is suspended”, particularly because “an intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation has stopped meeting” under Russia’s retaliatory measures against Ankara, Novak said.

“No one can blame Turkey, no one can expect an apology from Turkey”, Davutoğlu said in the speech, which was televised on Turkish television.