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Turkish Press
April 5 2014
Turkey, Azerbaijan gas pipeline construction to start 2014
Saturday, April 05, 2014
BAKU - The construction of a pipeline to transport natural gas through
Azerbaijan and Turkey to Europe is likely to start by the end of 2014,
Turkey's Prime Minister said Friday.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Azerbaijan's President Ilham
Aliyev in Baku, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's cabinet had paved
the way for construction by nationalizing the area where the pipeline
would pass through.
Aliyev said: "We expect to open the TANAP in 2018 with my brother
Erdogan. This project will contribute to our bilateral relations to a
significant extent."
Aliyev said that the project would also contribute to the relations of
the two states with neighboring countries.
The pipeline was announced in November 2011 at the Third Black Sea
Energy and Economic Forum in Istanbul and the two leaders signed a
binding intergovernmental agreement on the pipeline in June 2012.
The two leaders also said they discussed Azerbaijan and Armenia's
territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh. Aliyev thanks Turkey for
its support, which Erdogan reiterated, against what he claimed is an
Armenian occupation of Karabakh.
Erdogan hinted, in response to a question, that the two leaders had
talked about the movement led by U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gulen
and its schools in Azerbaijan.
"If there is a problem in our countries which also bothers the two
countries, of course, we would surely talk on it," said Erdogan.
"We are allies, brothers. We have covered a lot of issues. There is no
issue which we did not touch upon. If there is an issue which damages
our relations, we will surely take all necessary steps against it,"
said Aliyev.
Azerbaijan sacked the head of the Political Analysis and Information
Provision department, Elnur Aslanov, last month for alleged links to
Gulen.
April 5 2014
Turkey, Azerbaijan gas pipeline construction to start 2014
Saturday, April 05, 2014
BAKU - The construction of a pipeline to transport natural gas through
Azerbaijan and Turkey to Europe is likely to start by the end of 2014,
Turkey's Prime Minister said Friday.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Azerbaijan's President Ilham
Aliyev in Baku, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's cabinet had paved
the way for construction by nationalizing the area where the pipeline
would pass through.
Aliyev said: "We expect to open the TANAP in 2018 with my brother
Erdogan. This project will contribute to our bilateral relations to a
significant extent."
Aliyev said that the project would also contribute to the relations of
the two states with neighboring countries.
The pipeline was announced in November 2011 at the Third Black Sea
Energy and Economic Forum in Istanbul and the two leaders signed a
binding intergovernmental agreement on the pipeline in June 2012.
The two leaders also said they discussed Azerbaijan and Armenia's
territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh. Aliyev thanks Turkey for
its support, which Erdogan reiterated, against what he claimed is an
Armenian occupation of Karabakh.
Erdogan hinted, in response to a question, that the two leaders had
talked about the movement led by U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gulen
and its schools in Azerbaijan.
"If there is a problem in our countries which also bothers the two
countries, of course, we would surely talk on it," said Erdogan.
"We are allies, brothers. We have covered a lot of issues. There is no
issue which we did not touch upon. If there is an issue which damages
our relations, we will surely take all necessary steps against it,"
said Aliyev.
Azerbaijan sacked the head of the Political Analysis and Information
Provision department, Elnur Aslanov, last month for alleged links to
Gulen.