ANKARA — Turkey and Russia marked the completion of a natural gas pipeline under the Black Sea with a short ceremony in Istanbul Monday attended by their presidents.
“TurkStream is a historic project and we put in a lot of effort to realize it,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said of the twin pipelines that run 930 kilometers (580 miles) from the Russian port of Anapa to the coastal village of Kiyikoy in northwest Turkey. When the onshore work is completed by the end of next year, the pipelines will deliver 31.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.
