Türkiye postponed an international gas summit scheduled for the next week in Istanbul until late next month, an energy official said Friday, after major earthquakes struck the country’s southeastern region.
The summit seeking to assemble gas-supplying countries and Europe’s consumer countries was planned to be held Feb. 14-15 but now it has been postponed until March 22, the official told Reuters.
Türkiye had invited energy ministers from the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and the Far East, along with high-level representatives of the public and private sectors and representatives of international energy organizations, to the summit.
Setting up a gas hub in Türkiye was first proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in late October last year after explosions damaged Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea.
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