The trade volume on Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 57.50% to 11.75 million Turkish liras on Friday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Saturday.
Total trade on Thursday amounted to 7.46 million Turkish liras.
On Friday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 4,606 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 2.55 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 196.26 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Friday.
US$1 equals 9.98 Turkish liras at 1101 GMT on Saturday.
By Murat Temizer
Anadolu Agency
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