The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market saw an 158.63% increase to 20.5 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.
Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 7.9 million liras.
On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,405 liras, while the total natural gas volume traded amounted to 14.5 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 112.5 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.
US$1 equals 5.75 Turkish liras at 12.37 GMT on Friday
By Gokce Kucuk
Anadolu Agency
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