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Turkey complains Russian gas too expensive in possible discount bid

The Kyiv Independent · Nov 6, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

Turkey plans to wind down its reliance on Russian gas, but for cost reasons rather than geopolitical concerns, the country's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Nov. 5, according to media reports. However, "this could also be a bargaining message to Moscow: offer a better price or lose more market share," Isaac Levi, an energy policy analyst with the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), told th