The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 45% to 4.36 million Turkish liras on Saturday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Sunday.
Total trade on Friday amounted to 2.99 million liras.
On Saturday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,297 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to 3.36 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 215.09 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Saturday.
US$1 equals 7.41 Turkish liras at 1111 GMT on Sunday.
By Gulsen Cagatay
Anadolu Agency
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