{"id":44621,"date":"2011-10-02T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=44621"},"modified":"2011-10-02T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T09:08:26","slug":"turkey-breaks-russian-gas-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/02\/turkey-breaks-russian-gas-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey breaks Russian gas contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turkish government cancels a contract to buy six billion cubic metres a year of natural gas \u200efrom Russia after failing to win a discount<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AFP , Saturday 1 Oct 2011<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has revoked a contract to purchase six billion cubic metres a year of natural gas \u200efrom Russia, its main supplier, after failing to win a discount, Energy Minister Taner \u200eYildiz said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e&#8221;The contract on the western routing has been wound up because the request for a lower \u200eprice has been refused,&#8221; Anatolia news agency quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Yildaz had threatened Thursday to end the contract under which Turkey imports gas \u200efrom Gazprom Export, a subsidiary of the Russian gas giant Gazprom, via a pipeline \u200epassing through Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey imported 18 billion cubic metres of gas from Russia last year, about 60 percent \u200eof its total domestic gas consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Yildiz said Thursday that natural gas input prices had increased by around 39 percent \u200eover the last 29 months, adding that this would prompt Turkey to revisit each and every \u200eexpiring contract one by one.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement on the western pipeline, which feeds Turkey&#8217;s biggest city of Istanbul, \u200ewas signed in 1986 and was due to expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Other Russian gas is supplied by the South Stream pipeline passing under the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Yildiz said Saturday that the decision to break the contract did not mean that Russian gas \u200esupplies would end or cause any problems between Ankara and Moscow, whose \u200e\u200e&#8221;strategic relationship cannot be affected by a few contracts.&#8221;\u200e<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey breaks Russian gas contract &#8211; Economy &#8211; Business &#8211; Ahram Online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish government cancels a contract to buy six billion cubic metres a year of natural gas \u200efrom Russia after failing to win a discount AFP , Saturday 1 Oct 2011 Turkey has revoked a contract to purchase six billion cubic metres a year of natural gas \u200efrom Russia, its main supplier, after failing to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[5235,7143],"class_list":["post-44621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-natural-gas-import","tag-russian-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44621","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=44621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}