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Erdogan confirms Turkey's willingness to be the axis of Russian gas exports

MADRID, 14 Oct.

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Erdogan confirms Turkey's willingness to be the axis of Russian gas exports

MADRID, 14 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has confirmed that he will work together with Russia to make Turkey a node for the redistribution of Russian gas to third countries, one day after his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, raised this possibility coinciding with a meeting between both leaders in Kazakhstan.

"We have ordered the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and the institution in charge on the Russian side to work together," Erdogan assured journalists on the plane that was precisely transferring him from Astana, confirming a provision that he had previously given for sitting the Kremlin.

The goal is to create an "international distribution center" and, for Erdogan, the most favorable territory would be the region of Eastern Thrace, on the shores of the Black Sea, according to the Anatolia agency. The Turkstream already reaches this province, which according to Putin is today the most reliable gas pipeline for exports.

Putin denounced on Thursday an attempted sabotage on this gas pipeline that, according to his main spokesman, resulted in several arrests, after describing the explosions recorded in the Nord Stream pipelines, which run under the Baltic Sea and they are key to the supply to the center of Europe.