15 Billion Dollars In Mutual Trade With Russia

After meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin during hisv isit to Russia, Erdogan said that "If these were spoken 10-15 years ago everyone would say "Come on!" The change of mentalities is taking us to these points now. " Erdogan said that relations between turkey and Russia were continuing with increasing impetus.

On his part, Putin said that this figure might reach up to 25 billion dollars by 2007, stressing that Turkish businessmen would have a big role to play here. Putin also reminded that Turkish tourists were not visiting St. Petersburg.