OREANDA-NEWS  Turkey has agreed with Gazprom to postpone part of the payments after a sharp increase in gas prices, the country's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez said.

"Last year, after a sharp increase in gas prices, we held talks with Gazprom on deferring part of the payments, an agreement was reached, relevant discussions were held," Donmez replied in an interview with Haber Global TV channel to the question of whether the information that Ankara had pledged to pay Moscow $20 billion in deferrals was valid. Gaza after the elections.

Donmez stressed that this figure does not correspond to reality. He noted that relations with Russia "are at a high level" in all sectors, including energy. In October 2022, the Minister of Treasury and Finance of Turkey, Noureddin Nebati, said that the authorities of the republic were persistently seeking discounts on Russian gas, and in addition, Ankara asked Gazprom to postpone payments. According to him, "good news" is expected in both areas of negotiations.

In mid-September last year, Bloomberg reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was going to ask his colleague Vladimir Putin for a 25 percent discount on gas. At the same time, RIA Novosti sources later claimed that Ankara was not asking to wait for payments.

On the eve of the elections, the Turkish leadership tried to stabilize the situation in the economy, but against the background of the implementation of an alternative economic theory, which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan adheres to, the problems worsened.