Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev have expressed their hopes that Turkey and Russia will look ahead to improve the bilateral relations after the crisis triggered by the downing of a Russian jet that violated Turkey's airspace last year.
During a press conference following a meeting, Yıldırım and Medvedev touched upon the Turkish Stream project, a planned natural gas pipeline which runs from the Southern Russian Krasnodar Region across the Black Sea to Turkish Thrace.
"The efforts continue for the project, which is not only important for Turkey and Russia, but the whole region," Medvedev said.
"Russia and Turkey are cooperating on the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project to make the plant ready by 2023," Yıldırım said.
Yıldırım's visit is another important milestone for Turkey-Russia relations, after Turkish President Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met in the St. Petersburg province of Russia in August 2016, which initiated the thawing of chilly bilateral relations.
The meeting also accelerated efforts on economic, investment and cultural projects.
The Turkish President's visit was a milestone to restore ties between the two powerful nations in the region, after an 8-month-long row erupted over a Russian jet downed by Turkish military near the Syrian border last year.
