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US becomes Turkey's second biggest gas supplier, but for how long?

Turkey's second biggest gas supplier over the past winter was the United States, but Ankara may have to turn back to its neighbors to ensure it has sufficient supplies.
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While Europe looks to American liquefied natural gas as a short-term alternative to Russian gas, Turkey may have to turn back to its neighbors to ensure it has sufficient supplies.

With energy prices seldom far from the headlines in Turkey, few Turks will have any problem identifying Russia as the country's main supplier of natural gas since gas imports began back in the late 1980s. Russia still met 44% of Turkey's gas demands last year.

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