The trade volume on Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 2,976% to 16.22 million Turkish liras on Monday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Tuesday.
Total trade on Sunday amounted to 527,296 liras.
On Monday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 4,556 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 3.58 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 179.85 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Monday.
US$1 equals 9.52 Turkish liras at 1106 GMT on Tuesday.
By Ebru Sengul Cevrioglu
Anadolu Agency
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