Ankara and Moscow boost trade policy despite differences

Energy and trade files dominated the talks the two presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Vladimir Putin in Ankara (Island)

The two presidents held a Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin talks Monday in Ankara, mainly focused on the support of trade relations between the two countries and strengthen ties despite differences between the parties on the Syrian and Ukrainian crises.
The focus of the talks between Presidents Putin and Erdogan on cooperation in the field of energy, where Ankara is seeking to reduce the price of gas it imports from Russia, as well as import greater quantities of it before winter.
President Erdogan said at a news conference with his Russian counterpart that the trade agreements between Ankara and Moscow raises the exchanges between the two sides to $ 100 billion in the next few years, and stressed that there is an intention to accelerate the implementation of economic agreements between the two countries.
For his part, President Putin stressed that energy is vital for the two countries and agreed on a strategic nature, and stressed his country's keenness to increase the flow of natural gas from Russia to Turkey and from there to other countries.
Turkey wants, the second-largest importer of Russian gas after Germany, to get gas at lower prices and larger quantities of Russia, especially with winter approaching.
The Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz has said on a visit to Moscow last week that some Turkish areas need in the winter to 22 times the amount of gas that you use in the summer. Gazprom and pledged to increase the delivery of this year to Turkey operations to 30 billion cubic meters of gas.
Syria and Ukraine
In the political arena, President Putin called for a solution to the Syrian crisis with the participation of all parties, and considered that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stay in office or not is up to the Syrian people alone.
For his part, Erdogan said he was not in favor of Putin's point of view on the election of the lion, and added that there was election rant by Anqlabion as happened in Egypt, as described.
Turkish President pointed out that his country pay the massacres committed by the Assad regime against its own people through resorting hundreds of thousands of Syrians to Turkey tax.
In other politician would be referred to Ankara, which supports the sovereignty of States over their territory, especially because of its conflict with Kurdish separatists, opposed by Russia, Crimea Ukrainian annexation of this year.
Ankara also expressed concern about the situation of the Turkish minority in the Crimean Tatars who activists say they are being persecuted by the new pro-Kremlin authorities.