Turkey says will begin supplying Azeri gas to Syria from Saturday
Syria's new authorities, who toppled Bashar al-Assad in December, are seeking to rebuild the country's infrastructure and economy after almost 14 years of civil war.
The conflict badly damaged Syria's power infrastructure, leading to cuts that can last for more than 20 hours a day.
'We will start exporting natural gas from Azerbaijan to Aleppo via Kilis,' a province in southernmost Turkey near the Syrian border, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said.
In May, Syrian Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir said Damascus and Ankara had reached a deal for Turkey to supply natural gas to the war-torn country via a pipeline in the north.
Gas-rich Azerbaijan is a historic ally of Turkey which maintains close ties with the Syrian transitional government.
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