Turkey breaks gas contract

ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey has revoked a contract to purchase six billion cubic metres a year of natural gas from Russia, its main supplier, after failing to win a discount, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Saturday. The contract on the western routing has been wound up because the request for a lower price has been refused, Anatolia news agency quoted him as saying. Yildaz had threatened Thursday to end the contract under which Turkey imports gas from Gazprom Export, a subsidiary of the Russian gas giant Gazprom, via a pipeline passing through Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.

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