Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi will visit Turkey this week, energy ministry sources told AFP Monday, amid a Turkish cutback on its oil purchases from Iran under Western pressure.
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi will visit
Turkey
this
week, energy ministry sources told AFP Monday, amid a Turkish cutback on its
oil purchases from
Iran
under
Western pressure.
Qasemi is expected to arrive in
Ankara
to
hold talks with Turkish officials, the ministry source said on condition of
anonymity, without elaborating on the details of the visit.
The minister is scheduled to meet Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz on
Thursday, the source said.
The visit comes after
Turkey
struck an oil deal with
Libya
last
month, aimed at diversifying its sources of oil.
Another deal with
Saudi Arabia
for
oil purchase was being negotiated, Yildiz told reporters following the
Libya
deal,
to make up for the cutback on Iranian crude after the
U.S.
spearheaded sanctions against purchases from
Tehran
.
Late March,
Turkey
's
sole oil refiner Tupras said it had cut purchases of Iranian oil by 20 percent,
as Western nations tightened sanctions on
Tehran
due
to its disputed nuclear program.
Iran
insists its nuclear program is meant for peaceful purposes but many in the West
fear it is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
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