the president my dear friend. ministers. she's good and a journalist so you ladies and gentleman. greetings to all of you who gathered here in this room the first of all i would like to express my gratitude to. mr putting my friend for me personally for the hospitality and welcoming us here. today when he finished a console game isn't. at the top level. of cooperation committee we discuss different aspects of our cooperation but you know it is. also between the delegations where the votes will be on the other hand you hold the most we express of the will.

to promote our relations. we worked out all the steps that used to be taken in that direction. to me are close contacts and sincere dialogue also have a positive effect on our bilateral relations trade group by fifteen percent and that's now it will of twenty six billion dollars of course we could do more it could be more and as you know our goal is to reach. a one hundred billion dollars in trade bilateral trade. we also discuss it's all the issues. you're committed to concerning removing any limitations in this area also my dear friend put in i. we had a productive meeting with russian and turkish businessmen and. during that meeting we'll listen to the problem is that our businessmen encounter and also

discuss how we could possibly solve those issues. in the russian federation there is the thirteen hundred turkish investors and last year mr putin i led the foundation for. nuclear power plants which is being constructed as we speak and also the. stream but we know that we are now. finished with a c. portion of the pipeline and who are hoping that we will finish it by the end of this year. also the social and cultural relations between our countries are very important connections strengthen the connections between people is very important and that's why in twenty eighteen. we're going to have the cross cultural and tories in here between our countries all of these events part of this.

year. there's going to be. turkish opera troy was. at the bolshoi theater today and this year will continue to hold these events last year six million russian tourists visit turkey and they were hoping that in twenty one thousand this number will grow. and will set another record i think that we have to move forward with the. areas ation process and we will take these steps in the future mr putin i also discussed this issue. also as we met today will show discuss the problems in syria and other regional

issues weeks changed our opinions on the syrian settlement and the way also discussed the. situation with the us withdrawing troops from the region of course we discussed the. issue that problem by the way also talked about the situation in other areas of syria. so. talked about some additional steps that could provide for peace and stability in syria. and also together with the russian federation i would like to note that unless we. get rid of all terrorists in syria which is a threat to our national security there is not going to be any peace in the region so we will continue this fight also we talked about humanitarian tragedy in the lead we. emphasized that is important to peace and

stability in a lab. also the. a threat to our national security that we see in the northern parts of syria we're not going to pretend that that's not happening we're not ignoring. other kurdish groups operating in those areas they're just as dangerous as i says state and we also agree that. a political solution is the only way. to reach stability and peace in syria. to give this to the peace process in syria and we have to coordinate our efforts with the u.n. . there needs to be a constitutional committee established in the near future and then we will be able to solve the problems all that region. there is mutual understanding

between turkey and russia and. as there is a will to continue the relations. in conclusion i would like to express my gratitude to mr putin for his hospitality again for awhile to me personally and our delegation and i would also like to invite mr putin to hold hold the next. committee in our country. where you will with the decisions that were made i hope will benefit both of our countries and people in our country's history to its people one of those two questions from each side for the first. turkey and russia so let's start with the turkish journalists. chris angel bush for his.

cause but mr president. so i do wish him good luck with you. today but there was a huge divide with you meeting and you mostly discussed economy during the meetings today. as we know that. trade is mostly benefiting russia now because we're talking about twenty six billion dollars and you said that your goal is one hundred billion dollars what can be done what the road map can be developed. or did you develop a road map that would help us reach that goal is it and what about the trade in the national currency as well as on paper is six that mr putting passed the law. making the. easier for the turkish citizens did you talk about this.

it dear friends. first of all i would like to. note to say that the relations between russia and turkey in trade in the national currency is. that subject was the main subject of our talks and i would like to emphasize bad and that will continue to play a major role. or not where we want to be. yet but on the other hand the trade between our country is benefiting russia we see that because you know that. mostly by gas from russia. and this imbalance. benefits russia because of that

because we buy gas from russia in natural gas from russia by the time this tendency might change. if we say. right now that this imbalance is going to change drastically soon no we can't say that because we know that. we know what we sell to russia and we know what we buy from russia. it's. it's a good intention. to keep working on that. and if we talk about energy or defense industry we've discussed all these issues. your we look at all the finances and the budgets let's be honest with each other because of the. you know we have to look at. what can be done and how we can develop those relations.

we. mostly ask ourselves how can we supply our demands for natural gotta gas because that's a very important issue for our country we use gas everywhere in. housing in different kinds of industries. promises in turkey uses gas natural gas so it's our main source of energy. it's basically fifty percent. and fifty percent of that we buy from russia. to go so there is a now. a pipeline a sea pipeline. and we finish that part of the new pipeline.

between. god willing by the end of this year and we'll finish the land part of the pipeline as far as our cooperation in the area of defense is. certain steps have been made and we will continue to make these. and right now. our desire is to get to the point where we can trade in national currencies no. problem became the balance of trade. was very serious yes and mostly through it was when x. was from turkey to russia but it's not its only serves russia is even serious of course we would like to see. trade between russia. she'd be a go to be if you think that it was all about holy russia that we were living raising each of the say how much had we were made it's not true. because quite

a sensitive issue and i can tell you that. it is a business. very. business meeting we argued today we discussed the tax system which was hard to dismantle products. because turkey has increased. by two point two percent you add it decreased. when you are a much in with three percent yearly that was one of the boys talked about a large today so it's not only about the. figure grade of water for the all the praise we give it to each other no let's was quite a discussion and rebalance because of gas problems well no it's about the market and the market sets the prices it's market do you price it's not the problem poses of surprises to the q there's

a lot of to discuss here that we'll too for example our turkish colleagues say one thing worth while figure gas for both of them something else which is you need to fight global grounded beat each other which is our world between we do value we do value our relations with. business. community what is important. is not the prices. you plus the worker heat it's about the stability the reliability of russia's deliveries of natural gas to has a power of cards and they have got every. issue. deliveries that russia has always supplied. blad. that is the basis for the development of carnaby turkish businesses are disturbed that they can rely on these deliveries from russia. to regard. russia

increases the delivery of. the turkish authorities to why because other partners of turkey or sometimes fail to beat their applications and we had we always do we always deliver on our promises and you should we are aware of the big bullet points that trade should be he wouldn't put the better balance we have ways to achieve there to the first t.d. of the. racially if you will of the good structure. jerkish car body is as implemented a lot of projects in russia of the overall and worth of conservative billion dollars would go to get. a lot of infrastructure was built for you would do a live big game since i would share your google car pretty sure that took place in russia received the ocean as we discussed discussed it with structure rose the

other. care because battling this we are a lot of prostitutes like these sectors we also have a lot to do. with fertilizer. because of course military cooperation it's a high tech industry. and i'm sure we could start. something together i mean desire to get a better fer sure that we could build a heart where. we should not label our trade the sprawl russia or the world. this is something which helps both countries with i will make it more balanced i promise. to russia. sort of there was one moment. i really saw where there was a question regarding the visa solution with the do it is yours because of your i said it has been the issue in you that we are to fight belies number for the work of

professional drivers truck drivers and we also agreed in principle that all with professional passport holders will be traveling without any visa to a good fifty euros a bush which in reality in fact it's in favor of turkey because turkey has three times as mehdi. professional says russia has to this matter as it was the security of the regional security and of course that also could seriously syrian satellite but at this hour to our secrets. so i was forced to reach agreement on that they are working on that very actively evidence of i can assure you this is probably also a little bit russia will be meeting a lottery you know because these are two streets in which we have repeated use of pot so that everybody we hear use cuss into their battle buddy you said that you discussed it today i question is does that mean you've got it that this. has

not be deeply about it if that's true it's a problem if that's true why. would that be right for you to address maybe there are problems which would be the political settlement side when you go and you address you there for example the u.s. has recognized we're going to fight as a part of israel. what can you say about that well as you saw last week. you know russia's position was that. we issued a statement that you would you should this decision of the united states to cut through the u.n. security council resolutions the problem is a very acute one so far we haven't been able to point to achieve what we want to to achieve what we agreed upon those so should i think this probably can be solved by listening to minister of our businesses arms was doing instead of defiance but recently they discussed this problem with the you know when we are already starting

to patrol the area together that went on we fortunately we haven't created the model tori's said to but we're working to do that yes the pace is not as good as we hoped it would be but we have that base we go it struggles because those who said she already had that. world was in a bit of a chilly every day to every last bit of terrorism that's our ultimate goal we want to create a viable for peaceful saddlebag. you'll just we want to deal then you need to finalize our work of the italy province we are working out that i promise. mon dieu. course he. in his role of. a major region is it's like this archery for the state. you know and if something

happens that will force people to leave that area then turkey will be the only place where they can actually go it's a very delicate region and the together with the russian federation where we're working they're almost. getting and we're trying to figure out how to defend the people there and how to provide for the security in that region and fortunately. there are some terrorist groups present in the area if that makes our work more difficult but the russian federation is doing everything it can also there is some f.r.s. on the part of the regime and at this point. we made all those the necessary steps and. continue to. do that

and our defense ministry and the russian defense ministry together continue to. work there. trying to cheer results as you know we're not only talking about here. there's also the memory. and. there is a roadmap and a planned school but. this is probably going to take longer. than that but what i can say. is that. the call to ration between russia and turkey is playing

a very important role here the remote the terrorist corridor that they try to create there and also it's very important to keep the territorial integrity in syria. we have to keep and maintain that cooperation and continue to work. with there is some tension on the eastern bank of you freydis and there is still a threat coming from that area from that region and there are some the process is a very important step in settling that. and the main avatar's of that process is turkey and russia. and iran being the main actors that are working hard. can also include some other states in this process and we discussed this today.

we're not talking about excluding somebody the most important thing is to ask to clarify you know this can be done in this very important to bring people back to their homes over three hundred thousand toddler a day come back to their. homes and more and more refugees was will continue to come back. over three million. refugees are still are still in turkey and if for success a full with our initiatives and our efforts these people can go back to syria to where they came from. if i was so myself. and the other question from the turkish media. at today's talks.

emphasized that. this is a call to ration in syria or between the two states is very important that the political transitional as part of the political transitional period what steps are you planning. to cause. there kurdish forces present. in italy but that's a threat for turkey for the turkish military so how can you comment on that. but we've always you made important steps and if we look at that process there. are. there are certain results. the situation you can be used to be

a lot worse people used to believe but now they're on the they're trying to go back. the tide has turned of course it's not enough we're not satisfied with the situation. but. often most strong. turn it into african region. and got a little everybody's back the refugees are back their soccer matches the kids are in school and. we would like to see the same thing happen in it live but as soon as possible so we're doing everything within our power to achieve that. but it will have to mean. sure that there are no terrorism groups operating there and it doesn't matter what these terrorist groups are they are terrorists and our

position is clear and we will continue to. work and fight terrorism our goal is to. maintain the territorial integrity and integrity in say urea. on the other hand to the kurdish forces. to commit terrorist. acts of terror and we need to make sure that they don't do that why people why be g.'s a terrorist organization and do we continue to see that and we fought against them and alfre and then we will continue to fight them here in this city region as well because. it is a terrorist organization and. they.

continue the work of the kurdish workers party and we have all the documents have all the proof and have an old this information about them we can truly say that there are not a terrorist organization so we will continue to fight against them and we will hunt them down and. we did in a free and. by. showing you what they are real for what they really are and providing all the proof. and we will continue to do that. and that's when the british took the plane watching the presidents of russia and turkey outside a long news conference in moscow where the two leaders have been talking on a number of subjects of bilateral ties but also a focus on syria which is what they were both outlining there especially. the situation around italy which is the last main remaining pocket of violence in

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