Turkey said on Monday that it faces no reduction in the amount of gas flowing from Russia despite a Moscow-Kiev gas row, the Anatolian news agency reported.
Officials from the Turkish Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS) was quoted as saying the current natural gas pipelines with Russia continue to operate normally.
The officials' remarks came after an earlier report said that Turkey has claimed to raise supplies of Russian gas via the Blue Stream pipeline under the Black Sea to compensate for a slight decline in supplies via Ukraine.
Turkey's natural gas imports from Russia meets more than 65 percent of the country's total annual energy needs.
Russian gas monopoly, Gazprom, cut supplies to Ukraine on Jan. 1 in a dispute over debts and pricing that shows no sign of ending, worrying European consumers that depend on Russia for a quarter of their natural gas.
However, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria said their deliveries had been affected by the row.
Source:Xinhua
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