The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 62% to 3.92 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.
Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 2.42 million liras.
On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,316 liras, while the total natural gas trade volume amounted to 2.98 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 213.6 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.
US$1 equals 7.67 Turkish liras at 1110GMT on Friday.
By Sibel Morrow
Anadolu Agency
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