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Turkey and Russia meet again to negotiate gas discount
Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said Turkish negotiators would meet with representatives from Russia's Gazprom to discuss a gas discount for 2015 again Dec. 10.
"We are continuing to work to negotiate a bigger reduction in gas prices. Our target is to clarify the final price by the end of this month," Yıldız said at the signature ceremony for the Istanbul 2016 World Energy Congress.
Vestel asks Turkey for emergency import duties on mobile phones
Turkish electronics and domestic appliances maker Vestel has asked the government to impose emergency import tariffs on mobile phones, according to a filing from Turkey published by the World Trade Organization on late Dec. 8.
Turkey ‘would not accept’ Greece-Egypt Mediterranean deal
Any delimitation of the Mediterranean between Egypt and Greece will not be acceptable if it affects Turkeyâs national interests, Prime Minister Ahmet DavutoÄlu has said.
DavutoÄluâs remarks were published on Dec. 7 in the Greek newspaper To Vima, in an interview given at the end of the third High-Level Cooperation Council meeting between Greece and Turkey in Athens on Dec. 6.