“Now there is the Turkish Stream, it can be strengthened a little more and another pipeline can be made, and then a completely new energy map from east to west, from north to south can appear,” TASS quotes him.
According to him, it is necessary to think with a perspective for the next 5-10 years.
“If this happens, then, in other words, Turkey will become not just a gas transit country, it is actually moving towards becoming a country where the gas market is determined, where gas supplies are determined,” Kalyn stressed.
Earlier, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey, Fatih Dönmez, said that the Turkish side had begun to carry out its part of the work under an agreement with Russia on a gas hub.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov announced the development of a project to create a gas hub in Turkey.