Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and another 8 ministers will arrive on an official visit to Moscow Jan. 12-13, Today’s Zaman reports. According to the daily, “talks expected to focus on greater Russian involvement in an oil pipeline linking Turkey’s southern and northern coasts and the process of rapprochement between Turkey and Russia’s regional ally Armenia.”

The source recalls “Erdogan said earlier that Turkey expected to see progress in efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Turkey’s ethnic and regional ally Azerbaijan so that Ankara could move forward in the process of rapprochement with Armenia. In Moscow, Erdogan is expected to urge Russia to step up pressure on Armenia for a resolution to Nagorno-Karabakh.”

Zaman says that one of the most important issues on the agenda of the meeting is the future of the planned Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline. “Turkish and Russian officials are expected to announce an agreement during the visit allowing Russian oil pipeline operator Transneft and Russian oil company Rosneft to have a share in the $2.5 billion pipeline, which will run between Samsun on Turkey’s Black Sea coast and the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan,” the daily reads.