The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 61% to 2.9 million Turkish liras on Monday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Tuesday.
Total trade on Sunday amounted to 1.8 million liras.
On Monday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,224 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 2.4 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 177.58 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Monday.
US$1 equals 7.09 Turkish liras at 1112 GMT on Tuesday.
By Ebru Sengul Cevrioglu
Anadolu Agency
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