Turkey has agreed with Azerbaijan to accelerate the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), with an aim to have the gas projected completed before the planned 2018, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday.
In a joint news conference with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in the capital Baku, Davutoglu also said Turkey was willing to share details of its recent jet downing incident with Russia.
The announcement came hours after Russia said it halted talks on building a prospective pipeline to Turkey amid tensions over the downing of a Russian warplane.
The TANAP pipeline is intended to carry oil from Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea fields to Turkey and Europe. It is expected to have a capacity of 16 billion cubic meters of gas a year and cost about $11 billion.
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