The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 598% to 36.26 million Turkish liras on Saturday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Sunday.
Total trade on Friday amounted to 5.19 million liras.
On Saturday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,221 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 29.8 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 239.44 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Saturday.
US$1 equals 7.04 Turkish liras at 1250 GMT on Sunday.
By Sibel Morrow
Anadolu Agency
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