The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 70.7% to 7.63 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.
Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 4.47 million liras.
On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,691 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 4.51 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 144.23 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.
US$1 equals 8.27 Turkish liras at 1130 GMT on Friday.
By Nuran Erkul Kaya
Anadolu Agency
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