Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has stated that the country will continue to buy gas from Russia, the Turkish Energy Minister said in an interview with CNN Turk.
"We cannot tell our citizens that gas has been exhausted. It is necessary for us to be accessible to these resources without ignoring the interests of energy supply safety. We must buy gas, which we can get from Russia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
We also continue to extract gas in the Black Sea, "Bayrakar said. 2016 On October 10, Russia and Turkey signed an agreement on gas supplies to gas supplies under the Turkish Flow pipeline under the Napa region of Krasnodar Territory. Turkey's European Partnership supplies began in January 2020.