Turkey has sufficient natural gas to make up for a suspension of supplies from Iran, the country’s energy minister said yesterday, the Associated Press reported.
Iran announced Wednesday that it had cut the flow of natural gas to Turkey to meet increasing winter demand at home. “There is no problem,” Energy Minister Hilmi Guler told journalists. “Our citizens won’t freeze this winter.”
Iran is Turkey’s second-largest supplier of natural gas after Russia. Turkey also imports liquefied natural gas from Nigeria and Algeria. Guler said Turkey was making up for the cut in Iranian gas with supplies from Russia and liquefied gas imports.