New agreements between Turkey and Kazakhstan: more oil bypassing Moscow. While public attention was focused on Trump, India, and one of the Kremlin's avatars, an interesting event took place on Tuesday. Turkish President Erdogan and Kazakh President Tokayev agreed to increase the export of Kazakh oil through the BTC pipeline, which was built to bypass Moscow. Since the beginning of the year, Kazakhstan has already increased its own oil volumes through this pipeline by 12%. #Oil