Russian President Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a ceremony to launch TurkStream gas pipeline. The TurkStream project is a gas pipeline consisting of two lines with a capacity of 15.75 billion cubic metres of gas per year each.
The first line is to ship Russian gas to Turkish consumers, the second one, to the countries of southern and southeastern Europe. The ceremony was also attended by President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borissov.