The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, believes that Europe itself is to blame for the current energy crisis.

 This follows from his statement made before the start of the Balkan tour of the Turkish president, reports Haber Global.

 "We have no problems with natural gas. Europe is really reaping what it has sown. Mr. Putin's position is that if you do this, I will do this. He uses all the means and weapons at his disposal." The most important of them is natural gas," Erdogan said.

 He added that "we would not like it, but this is the situation in Europe, and I think that Europe will have serious problems this winter." "We don't have such a problem," said the Turkish president.

 As reported, the day before, the Kremlin began direct blackmail of the West by putting forward the conditions for pumping gas through the Nord Stream.