TRT News reported that, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu has offered to connect the Turkish Stream pipeline, which the project is being developed by Russia, to the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), via which Azerbaijani gas planning to be delivered to European markets in 2020. The Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said in his speech that Ankara will buy only 16 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year via the Turkish Stream. The remaining volume of Russian gas can be exported through Turkey via TANAP by connecting it to the Turkish Stream.

The minister also noted the importance of the TANAP project by adding the “TANAP is a priority project for Turkey,” sentence to his speech. A leading analyst of the National Energy Security, a lecturer at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Igor Yushkov, said recently that it would be advantageous for Russia to join the project, so that the gas heading from Russia to Turkey could get into the pipe with the Azerbaijani gas. "In such circumstances, the Europeans will not be able to put a spoke in Gazprom's wheel, because our gas will be supplied by an international pipeline," he noted.

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TANAP project, worth $9.2 billion, envisages transportation of gas of Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz field from Georgian-Turkish border to the western borders of Turkey. The gas is planning to be delivered to Turkey in 2018, and after completion of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline’s (TAP) construction, the gas is expected be delivered to Europe in early 2020.
TANAP shareholders are Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company (SOCAR) with (58 percent), BOTAS (30 percent), and BP (12 percent).