Gazprom has increased natural gas supplies to countries that might become future customers of the Turkish Stream project from 1 January through 15 August 2017, the Russian gas holding company has said in a statement. In particular, Russian gas supplies have increased to Turkey and South and South-Eastern Europe. Compared to the same period of 2016, exports to Turkey rose by 22.4%, to Greece by 13.2%, to Serbia by 40.8%, to Bulgaria by 11.1%, and to Hungary by 24.4%.