Wednesday, October 28 2020 12:10

ArmInfo.Recep Erdogan's aggressive anti-Russian policy gradually began to bear fruit, though completely disappointing for the business of both countries: it became known  about the beginning of the gradual withdrawal of Russian companies  from the project to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey.

It can be assumed that this is just the beginning, and as it was stated 5 years  ago, "Turkey will not get off with tomatoes alone", which means that  the Turkish tourist destination in Russia is again under threat of  closure. Writes about this Russian tourist publication "Turprom".

The publication reminds that on Tuesday the board of directors of  Inter RAO approved the withdrawal from the Akkuyu Nuclear company,  which deals with the Akkuyu NPP project in Turkey. Recall that in  2010 Rosatom established this project company in Turkey for the  construction of a nuclear power plant, implemented on the basis of an  intergovernmental agreement. It was assumed that after the completion  of the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant with a capacity  of 4800 MW, Turkey will receive about 35 billion kWh per year. The  commissioning of the first unit of the nuclear power plant was  planned in 2023.

Why did "Inter RAO" leave Turkey? The company itself has not yet  named these reasons. However, it can be assumed that against the  backdrop of Erdogan's anti-Russian rhetoric, Moscow decided to  gradually begin to curtail all cooperation with Ankara, so as not to  increase losses in the future if the situation aggravates. If this is  the case, then a ban on holidays in Turkey is very likely, because it  would be extremely risky for Russia to leave its citizens hostage to  Erdogan in case of an aggravation of the conflict.  Moreover, the  Kremlin cannot rely on a sense of self-preservation in this matter,  not to mention the conscientiousness of Russian tourists - Turkey  over the past 15 years has remained the most popular foreign tourist  destination in Russia. As political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky  noted about the rest in Turkey in his telegram channel: `` As for  tourism ... Our idiots show that coronavirus, not coronavirus, will  come anyway. If there is a war with Russia, our resorts will still be  torn to their resorts. Used to>.  Nevertheless, the situation in  relations between Moscow and Ankara is indeed escalating, and by  leaps and bounds. In addition to unleashing a war between Azerbaijan  and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, Erdogan today has already  expressed claims even to the Russian Crimea - they say, historically,  this is a Turkish peninsula. And on Sunday, an espionage provocation  against Russia took place in Turkey: the Turkish special service MIT  detained the deputy director of the Bosphorus Gaz company and 5 more  of its employees - they are accused of transmitting information to  Russia about the field discovered in the Black Sea, the prices of  imported gas and data on its supplies. Plus, last week, during a  visit to Zelensky's Ankara, Erdogan provocatively and rudely stated  that he would never "recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia."

And these are just a list of Turkey's inclinations with respect to  Russia's obvious interests. But Erdogan is also active in a field  where Russia has indirect interests: for example, Turkey's de facto  occupation of Syrian Afrin and terrorist control in Idlib, while  Russia supports the official government in Syria and fights  Islamists. Another intersection of interests is Turkey's involvement  in the Libyan civil war against Russian- backed Field Marshal Khalifa  Haftar.

Given such a policy of Turkey, the newspaper writes, it really should  not be surprising if the Russian authorities gradually zero the  Russian tourist flow to this country, redirecting it to a more  friendly state.  Moreover, at the end of the tourist season, it can  be done painlessly for tourists. Yes, and there is a worthy  alternative to Turkish resorts - these are Egyptian Hurghada and  Sharm el-Sheikh: year-round resorts located on the warm and beautiful  Red Sea, with hotels operating according to the all inclusive system,  which is loved by Russian tourists, and they are also cheaper than  Turkish ones. hotels, and the flight to them is only a little longer  than to Antalya .