There are no political affairs interfering with bilateral talks on building a natural gas pipeline through Turkey, Russian energy company Gazprom said. Turkey is the second-largest consumer of Russian natural gas. Gazprom last year surveyed the land route through Turkey for a pipeline dubbed Turkish Stream, a scaled-back version of the South Stream gas pipeline proposed for the region. The Kremlin sent two offers to the Turkish government for consideration on the pipeline project in mid-2015. In August, the government said there was still no word on the project from Ankara. Alexei Miller , chief executive officer at Gazprom, said there was nothing in the way of bilateral agreements on the gas pipeline. “Work to draft the text [of […]