Leaders of Turkey and Russia launch TurkStream project which will carry natural gas from Russia to Europe through Turkey
Russian President Putin , Turkish President Erdogan , Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov and Serbia's President Vucic attend the ceremony, marking the formal launch of the TurkStream pipeline, in Istanbul, Turkey on January 8, 2020.
Last week, Greece, Israel, and the Greek Cypriot Administration signed a controversial deal for the EastMed project to build a 1,900-km natural gas pipeline that will run from Israel through Southern Cyprus, Crete, Greece and ultimately to Italy, a plan Turkey says is bound to fail. Putin arrived late on Tuesday after paying a surprise visit to Syria — his first to Damascus since the war began — at a moment of acute uncertainty in the Middle East following the killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani by the United States.
Last week, Turkey sent its first troops to help defend the UN-backed Tripoli government, which is under siege from warlord Khalifa Haftar. Erdogan has called for a ceasefire in Idlib, following previous temporary halts to the fighting brokered with Russia in late 2018 and updated in August last year.
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