Turkey is unable to abandon Russian gas supplies in the short-term, the republic’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview with the Haber Turk TV channel on Thursday.
"No, it is not possible in the short-term," he said when asked whether the country would be able to find an alternative to the Russian gas shortly, for example, from Iraq, Azerbaijan or Israel.
That said, Ankara is considering the possibility of reducing its energy dependency on other countries, the minister noted. "Turkey will reach an important stage in this issue when natural gas from the Sakarya field [in the Black Sea] is supplied to the domestic market in 2023," he explained.
