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While gas prices have increased by nearly 2,000 percent since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the increase in Türkiye's household prices was significantly lower than that, the Petroleum Pipeline Company has said.

Gas prices have risen by 30 percent and electricity prices have have risen by 15 percent.

The prices have increased by 35 percent for households and 44 percent for businesses.

Natural gas delivery to industrial facilities have been restricted since January 20.

BOTAŞ has cited global prices increases for the latest hike. It has maintained prices for households.

The opposition parties have sharply criticized the recent hikes in the electricity and natural gas prices: "They increased the electricity price by 15 percent on the day when they set up a Price Stability Committee. This is no joke."

According to the Cabinet decision, the Treasury handed over its holdings in THY, Borsa İstanbul, Ziraat Bank, Halk Bank, BOTAŞ, PTT, TÜRKSAT, Turkish Petroleum, ETİ Maden, Türk Telecom, and Çaykur to a sovereign wealth fund.

Reporters were kept away from the wells in the military zone of Silopi where excavations were carried out under the supervision of the prosecution and lawyers.