NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Turkey visit brings S-400 missile and nuclear plant headway” – bne Intellinews

April 4, 2018 JRL Russia List Arms Trade, Military Aid, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, JRL NewsBlog, Middle East, North Africa, Military, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear, Missile Defense, Oil, Gas, Energy

“… Erdogan received … Putin in Ankara … with a crowded agenda … including … Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, the purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defence system and progress with the TurkStream natural gas pipeline …. even more challenging … with the scheduled arrival of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and … the complicated task of finding an end-game for the conflict in Syria …. Western anxieties over Nato member Turkey’s growing closeness to the Kremlin will have been most stoked by … the official start of work to build Turkey’s first nuclear power station ….”