The Presidents of Russia and Turkey are due to meet in St Petersburg for the first time after the downing of a Russian fighter-bomber by the Turkish Air Force in November.The incident severed bilateral relations, halted cooperation in energy and trade and decreased the flow of Russian tourists to Turkey.But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in June apologized to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, marking the beginning of a thaw.On Monday he told Russian TASS news agency Ankara was ready to immediately return to the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, whose implementation came to a halt after the incident but had …read more
Source: Novinite
