The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 20.26% to 8.43 million Turkish liras on Tuesday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Wednesday.
Total trade on Monday amounted to 7.01 million liras.
On Tuesday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,277 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to 6.6 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 186.36 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Tuesday.
US$1 equals 7.34 Turkish liras at 1113 GMT on Wednesday.
By Sibel Morrow
Anadolu Agency
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