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Turkish president to pay official visit to Ukraine

18.03.2015

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Ukraine, where he will take part in the 4th meeting of the Ukrainian-Turkish High Level Cooperation Council on March 20.

According to the Turkish president's press service, Erdogan is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk.

The Turkish president also plans to meet with Ukrainian and Turkish businessmen, who have contributed through mutual investments to boosting trade between the two countries and developing bilateral relations.

Erdogan will also meet with representatives of the Crimean Tatars in Kyiv, the press service reported.
 
Energy and Crimean Tatars top agenda as Turkey's Erdogan visits Ukraine| Reuters

By Orhan Coskun

ANKARA Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:40am EDT

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(Reuters) - Energy ties and the fate of Crimean Tatars will top the agenda when Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets his Ukrainian counterpart in Kiev on Friday, but concrete deals are unlikely as he seeks to avoid straining relations with Moscow.

Turks have close kinship bonds with the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Tatar minority in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine a year ago. Erdogan has repeatedly warned that the instability could have regional repercussions.

"Our brothers, who in the past suffered mass deportations, were able to return to their homelands after many years. Unfortunately they ... have been seriously impacted by (recent) developments there," Erdogan told reporters.

"Turkey is closely following the situation of our brothers," he said before leaving for his meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, describing pressure on Tatar community leaders as "unacceptable".

But Turkey also has deepening trade ties with Russia and has been reluctant to openly criticize Moscow. Erdogan spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, discussing energy deals and the Ukraine crisis.

Russian gas exporter Gazprom said in January it planned to build an undersea gas pipeline via the Turkish-Greek border -- a project informally known as "Turkish Stream" -- as it seeks to supply Europe while by-passing Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials are likely to be looking for assurances from Erdogan and Energy Minister Taner Yildiz during their trip that those ties will not harm Ukrainian interests.

"One of the most important topics during Erdogan’s visit will be energy," a senior Turkish official said, noting that Ukraine still wants to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on the Black Sea coast, a project Ankara opposes.

"Turkey still opposes LNG tankers passing through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. This stance will be reiterated during the visit," the official said.

A second official said Turkey was looking for new export markets and that a roadmap for boosting trade with Ukraine would be discussed, but said concrete announcements were unlikely.

"Nobody should expect from this visit a step from Turkey that could strain ties with Russia," he said.

(Additional reporting by Ece Toksabay in Istanbul; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Crispian Balmer)
 
Erdogan in Kyiv to strengthen Turkish-Ukrainian ties and meet Crimean Tatars - watch on - uatoday.tv

The plight of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Black Sea peninsula high on agenda.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko as part of an official visit to Kyiv on March 20.

Discussions about expanding relations between the two countries were on the agenda, as both heads of state attended the fourth meeting of the Ukrainian-Turkish Cooperation Council.
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Whilst in Kyiv, Erdogan will also meet with representatives of the Crimean Tatar community, which has faced a wave of persecution by the Kremlin-appointed authorities in their Black Sea peninsula homeland since it was annexed by Russia in early 2014.

Turkey has previously voiced support for Ukraine's territorial integrity and has refused to recognize Crimea as part of Russia. However, Ankara has not joined international sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine.

EU officials have previously accused Turkey of taking advantage of trade bans and sanctions implemented by Russia and Europe to export more of its own products to Russia.
 
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Ukraine, Turkey to intensify talks on free trade area| Ukrinform

KYIV, March 21 /Ukrinform/. Ukraine and Turkey have agreed to intensify talks on free trade area.

This was stated by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during a joint press conference with President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

"We have agreed that it is necessary to intensify the negotiating process on the free trade area agreement," he said.

Poroshenko also informed that an agreement was reached to hold the meeting of the joint intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation in April.

Poroshenko thanked Erdogan for encouraging Turkish investments in Ukraine, as evidenced by today's signing a check for investment in Ukraine worth more than UAH 3 billion by the Turkcell company and receiving of the license number one for 3G mobile communication.

"I'm sure this is a good sign of transparency and efficiency of the competitions, which now take place in Ukraine," Ukraine's President concluded.

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21.03.2015 | 23:56
Turkey wants to help rebuild Donbas – Erdogan : UNIAN news

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Poroshenko is meeting Erdogan / Photo from UNIAN
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this at a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on Friday, an UNIAN correspondent reported.

"When Ukraine overcomes this difficult period, we are ready for Turkish construction firms' engagement in rebuilding [infrastructure] in territories that have suffered from this conflict," he said.

Erdogan said he was sure that the Ukrainian government would support the Turkish companies in every possible way.

In his words, when Ukraine establishes fair competition regime, "Turkish companies will put their signature under huge and unprecedented successes."

According to Erdogan, Turkish construction firms have already implemented projects worth UAH 4.5 billion in Ukraine.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Turkey supports Ukraine in its intention to invite UN peacekeepers to Donbas.
 
Turkey to further defend Crimean Tatars' rights in international arena – Erdogan : UNIAN news
20.03.2015

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that his country will continue to defend the rights of the Crimean Tatars in the international arena.
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Erdogan pledges to support Crimean Tatars in the international arena / Photo from UNIAN
The Turkish president announced this at a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on Friday, an UNIAN correspondent reported.

Erdogan expressed hope that Ukraine would also continue to support and safeguard the rights of all ethnic and religious groups, including the Crimean Tatars.

"We have closely been monitoring the situation around the Crimean Tatars, who have been under constant pressure for a year already. And we will continue to include our brothers' problems in the agenda of both bilateral relations and any other international platform," Erdogan said.

UNIAN reported earlier that Chairman of the Crimean Tatars' Mejlis Refat Chubarov said the Ukrainian military should have supported the Crimean Tatars way back in February 2014, when Russia launched the annexation of the peninsula.
 
Poroshenko: Ukraine interested in resumption of Turkmen gas supplies| Ukrinform
KYIV, March 27 /Ukrinform/. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has met with vice prime minister, foreign minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, the President's press office reports.

Poroshenko noted that relations between Ukraine and Turkmenistan remained at a high level. In turn, Rashid Meredov stressed that Ukraine was a reliable partner for Turkmenistan, and his country was committed to further developing of economic and trade cooperation.

Ukraine's President emphasized the interest in diversification of gas supplies, including through the Turkmen natural resource. "Ukraine is ready for and is interested in the resumption of Turkmen gas supplies, as an alternative source," he said.
 
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