"The investments in Tatarstan will be increased even more during the restoration of the Russia-Turkey relations, [during] the relations’ normalization. The turnover amounted to [$]500 million in 2014, [but] dropped over the past year. Let’s hope that we will use the existing opportunities and increase the turnover," Yildirim said at the Turkey-Tatarstan business forum held in the republic’s capital Kazan.
Yildirim arrived Tuesday on his first official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian-Turkish relations deteriorated after the downing of a Russian military plane by a Turkish fighter jet in Syria on November 24, 2015. Moscow imposed a number of restrictive measures on Turkey in response to what Putin then described as a "stab in the back."
Amid bilateral tensions, visa-free travel of Turkish citizens to Russia was also abolished.
Following Turkey's official apology in June, Russia stated gradually lifting the restrictions it had imposed against Turkey.
