Iran may increase gas supply to Turkey

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran may be able to increase its natural gas supplies to Turkey if a shortfall is created by the cut off of Russian gas supplies, an Iranian embassy source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Russian gas supplies to Turkey from the western pipeline passing through Ukraine had been cut, Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler told reporters on Tuesday. Iran supplies approximately a third of Turkey's gas.

(Reporting by Orhan Coskun; Editing by Louise Ireland)