Efforts to raise billions of dollars to repay an energy import tariff that expires at the beginning of this year after rising energy prices and the collapse of the Turkish lira are being made by Turkey's state-owned gas company.
According to Bloomberg, Boru Hatlari ile Petrol Tasima AS, known as Botas, is seeking a loan of about $2 billion to cover upcoming payments, with some of its debts owed to Russia's Gazprom PJSC, according to people familiar with the matter.
As the U.S. news agency reports, the Turkish company has secured only about 5 billion Turkish pounds ($365 million) so far from a group of domestic lenders, far less than its needs for the year, said people who did not want
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