Azerbaijan, Baku, June 28 /Trend A.Taghiyeva/
Iran has cut the natural gas supply to Turkey, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said, the newspaper Sabah reported.
Turkey had filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Arbitration against Iran to challenge the price of gas.
In 1996, Iran and Turkey signed an agreement on supplying 10 billion cubic meters of gas annually to Turkey (30 million cubic meters per day).
According to the statistical data of the Turkish state pipeline company Botas, Turkey imported 39.7 billion cubic meters of gas in 2011. Russia ranks first among the exporters of gas to Turkey followed by Iran and Azerbaijan.