The meeting would be the first between senior Turkish officials since Turkey downed a Russian plane near its border with Syria, touching off a crisis between the two countries that previously enjoyed warm ties.
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But the Russian foreign minister maintained that he has “heard nothing new at all” during the meeting requested by Cavusoglu, the report said.
The fallout comes after an intruding Russian SU-24 was shot down on November 24 by Turkish F-16s near the Syrian border after it ignored a total of ten warnings in five minutes.
“If Russia cuts gas, it would effectively be shutting down the Marmara region and that would seriously hurt Turkey”, he said, adding he did not expect Moscow to take such a step as it would break a “contractual obligation”.
Russian Federation has in the last days also accused Ankara of importing oil from Islamic State jihadists in Syria, allegations that Turkey fiercely denies.
“We thought that Russian Federation had forgotten Soviet behavior, but such acts reemerge one by one, he said”.
“On both sides there is a desire not to escalate the tensions”.
“Currently talks are suspended”, energy minister Alexander Novak said, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.
German Defense Minister Ursula Von der Leyen, left, and her Turkish counterpart Ismet Yilmaz flanked by two portraits of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as they pose for a photo before their talks, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 3… “We would not apologise for defending our borders”. Aliyev said it would also serve to export Azerbaijan’s gas further on to Europe.
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President Vladimir Putin snubbed a meeting with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the climate conference in France on Monday, after Lavrov had earlier scrapped a visit to Istanbul in the immediate wake of the plane downing.
