The year 2017 set a record in Turkey that only a few people noticed: namely, a historic peak in Russian gas deliveries. Gazprom sales to Turkish customers shot up by 17.3 percent and hit 29 billion cubic meters (bcm). This was partly due to an exceptionally harsh winter. On January 7, the cold wave sweeping down from Eastern Europe had the Bosphorus Strait closed for shipping. Heavy snow all but shut down Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, grounding more than 650 flights. Not only did the freeze spike households’ heating bills, it also increased by a quarter the volume of gas burned …read more
Source: The American Interest
