{"id":23819,"date":"2010-10-19T03:41:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=23819"},"modified":"2010-10-19T03:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:41:40","slug":"iran-halts-gas-flow-to-turkey-to-do-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/19\/iran-halts-gas-flow-to-turkey-to-do-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran halts gas flow to Turkey to do repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN\u00a0Oct 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran temporarily halted flows of natural gas to Turkey on Sunday for technical reasons, a gas official was quoted as saying by the ILNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran stopped exporting gas to Turkey this morning to carry out some repairs,&#8221; Hassan Montazer Torbati, an official of National Iranian Gas Company said. The gas flows would restart soon, he said, without specifying.<\/p>\n<p>The repairs were happening at a plant on the border with Turkey, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gas flows were halted two months ago due to an explosion on Aug. 24 and restarted on Sept. 25. A similar explosion occurred on July 21 and halted gas exports for 10 days. No explanation was given for either blast.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrillas from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have in the past claimed responsibility for attacks on oil pipelines from Iraq and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is Turkey&#8217;s second-biggest supplier of natural gas after Russia, sending 10 billion cubic metres of gas each year. Turkey uses gas to fire half of its power plants. (Writing by Robin Pomeroy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN\u00a0Oct 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran temporarily halted flows of natural gas to Turkey on Sunday for technical reasons, a gas official was quoted as saying by the ILNA news agency. &#8220;Iran stopped exporting gas to Turkey this morning to carry out some repairs,&#8221; Hassan Montazer Torbati, an official of National Iranian Gas Company said. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[2351,3979,2010],"class_list":["post-23819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","tag-iranian-natural-gas","tag-national-iranian-gas-company","tag-natural-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}