A working meeting of Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, with Alparslan Bayraktar, Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey, and Burhan Ozcan, Chairman of the Board and General Manager at Turkey's state-owned oil-and-gas company BOTAS, took place at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2022.
The parties discussed the state and prospects of their cooperation in the gas sector. The meeting noted the reliability of Russian gas supplies to Turkey via the Blue Stream and TurkStream offshore gas pipelines. In 2021, Gazprom increased its gas supplies to Turkey by 63 per cent compared to the previous year.