Imposed by the EU sanctions against Russia contribute to the fact that the trade turnover between Russia and Turkey is growing faster, said the Minister of economy of Turkey Nihat, Zeybekci in conversation Austrian.

Zeybekci said that the volume of trade between the 2 countries would rise and without punishment, but in the current circumstances this process goes faster.

At this time, According to Zeybekci, the volume of trade between Russia and Turkey is 28 billion dollars. Along with this, he added, ought to make an effort to the development of economic relations between Moscow and Ankara were sustainable.

" A year and a half ago during the summit was the stated aim to increase the bilateral trade to 100 billion dollars at the time of sanctions and the speech was not. The only effect of the punishment is that now we will reach this goal faster, " said the Minister.


The US and EU do not recognize the annexation of Crimea to Russia and accuse Moscow of interfering in Ukraine. Russia denies it and calls the accusations are unacceptable. Western countries since March has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations and threatened to make wider restrictive measures.

The list of Russian Citizens and organizations, first fell under the sentence, the material of the Fins news

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