Turkey should diversify its energy sources by focusing on its strategic region, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Berat Albayrak said Wednesday.

"We are one of the highest amount of [natural] gas consuming countries in the world with more than 50 billion cubic meters a year," he said at the eighth Turkey Investment Conference in New York.

"More than 50 percent of it relies on a specific country," he said. "So, we should create some alternatives, like additional pipelines." While around 95 percent of Turkey's domestic oil and natural gas consumption is based on foreign energy imports, over 55 percent out of the country's total gas imports came from Russia with 26.7 billion cubic meters last year.

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