Baku. Agshin Rafigoglu – APA-Economics. Turkey pays $ 335 for per 1,000 cubic meters of gas purchased from Azerbaijan.
APA-Economics reports quoting Zaman newspaper that Turkey purchases same volume gas from Russia for $425, from Iran for $490.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Iran in the coming days. Main topic of the negotiations will be reduction of gas price.
Turkey sued International Economic Court over high gas price. The trial is still underway. Even Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz told media that Iran exaggerates gas price. Tehran promised to reduce gas price and it’s supposed that this will be solved during Erdogan's visit to Iran.