Azerbaijan Still Backs Tanap After Nabucco Report, Turkey Says

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Turkey, pushing the planned Trans-Anatolia Pipeline to carry Caspian natural gas to Europe, said Azerbaijan remains supportive of the project even after reports that alternative routes were still being considered.

“President Ilham Aliyev and our prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, have the political will to implement the project,” Turkish Deputy Energy Minister Murat Mercan told reporters in the Azeri capital, Baku, today. Mercan said he hoped talks will be completed by the end of the month.