The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 59.9% to 8.89 million Turkish liras on Tuesday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Wednesday.
Total trade on Monday amounted to 5.56 million liras.
On Tuesday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,704 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 5.21 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 145.8 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Tuesday.
US$1 equals 8.55 Turkish liras at 1104 GMT on Tuesday.
By Firdevs Yuksel
Anadolu Agency
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