The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 229% to 9.96 million Turkish liras on Monday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Tuesday.
Total trade on Sunday amounted to 3.02 million liras.
On Monday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,465 liras, while the total natural gas trade volume amounted to 6.79 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 76.1 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Monday.
US$1 equals 6.85 Turkish liras at 1117 GMT on Tuesday.
By Ovunc Kutlu
Anadolu Agency
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