{"id":12566,"date":"2009-05-22T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2014-01-05T17:16:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:16:18","slug":"putin-russia-becomes-turkeys-leading-economic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/05\/22\/putin-russia-becomes-turkeys-leading-economic-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin: Russia becomes Turkey&#8217;s leading economic partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12567\" title=\"sezerputin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sezerputin.jpg\" alt=\"sezerputin\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sezerputin.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sezerputin-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>MOSCOW, May 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; <strong>Russian Prime Minister  Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that his country has become Turkey&#8217;s leading  trade partner. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Trade turnover between Russia and Turkey reached a  record 35 billion U.S. dollars, making Russia one of the most important trade  and economic partners of Turkey, Putin said during talks with his Turkish  counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Searesort of Sochi. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> The heads of government hailed the cooperation  between the two countries. &#8220;If several years ago we talked mostly about  cooperation in the construction sector, now diversification is very broad,&#8221;  Putin was quoted as saying by the Itar-Tass news agency. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> <strong> The premiers agreed to immediately start talks on  extending two agreements under which Russia delivered natural gas to Turkey, the  third largest consumer of Russian gas after Germany and Italy. Meanwhile,  Russian companies are expected to participate in building four nuclear power  plants in Turkey. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Erdogan told reporters after their meeting that Putin  would visit Turkey soon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Editor:                   Mu Xuequan<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:\u00a0 news.xinhuanet.com, 17.05.2009<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, May 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that his country has become Turkey&#8217;s leading trade partner. Trade turnover between Russia and Turkey reached a record 35 billion U.S. dollars, making Russia one of the most important trade and economic partners of Turkey, Putin said during talks with his Turkish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":12567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}