Turkey’s foreign minister has said that diplomacy will be the cure to resolving divisions between Ankara and Moscow.
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Karagol discussed mega projects between Turkey and Russian Federation, and said that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project which is now under construction would go ahead.
The expert also said that the prime minister of the new Turkish government traditionally makes his first foreign visit to Azerbaijan. “We are confident that be tensions will be reduced in the coming future”.
“The latest unprecedented incident – the Turkish Air Force attack on the Russian jet over Syrian territory – can be considered an extremely unfriendly act towards Russia and its citizens”, he said. For Turkey, Russia is the source of the second-largest number of tourist arrivals after Germany. We believe that the problem will be settled diplomatically.
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The number of foreigners arriving in Turkey in October 2015 was 3.3 million, down 4.02 percent from the same month of previous year, the report said. The decision to suspend the visaless regime with Turkey is not critical for the Russian tour industry, the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, Maya Lomidze, has told TASS.
