Turkey turns to US and India for diesel as Russian export ban bites

Energy Aspects, which also provides data on energy flows, estimated India sent a smaller amount of 74,000 bpd to Turkey in August and that the US shipped 70,000 bpd. Still, these are the highest since 2022 and 2019 respectively based on EA data.

Turkey’s imports of Russian diesel declined to around 100,000 bpd in July and 80,000 bpd in August, having held above 200,000 bpd in the earlier months of this year since January, Kpler data showed. This reduced Russia’s share of Turkey’s diesel imports to 20 per cent in August.

In 2025, Russia supplied 85 per cent of Turkey’s diesel imports with 281,000 bpd, according to Turkey’s energy regulator.

Russia may extend the diesel exports ban into September, according to industry sources.

(Reporting by Enes Tunagur in London, editing by Alex Lawler and Barbara Lewis)