TurkStream is a natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Turkey. It starts from Russkaya compressor station near Anapa in Russia's Krasnodar Region, crossing the Black Sea to the receiving terminal at Kıyıköy. Some gas flows onwards to the European Union.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremony of TurkStream pipeline in Istanbul on 19 November 2018
Fossil gas supplies over a quarter of Turkey's energy. The country consumes 50 to 60 billion cubic metres of this natural gas each year, nearly all of which is imported. A large gas field in the Black Sea however started production in 2023.
The Kanuni has drilled in the Black Sea
Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline inauguration in Eskişehir in 2018 (Rovnag Abdullayev - president SoCAR, → Mustafa Akıncı - President of Northern Cyprus, → Ilham Aliyev - President of Azerbaijan, → Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - President of Turkey, → Petro Poroshenko - President of Ukraine, → Aleksandar Vučić - President of Serbia, → Berat Albayrak - Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey)