ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank announced on Thursday that its foreign currency reserves rose by 9 million USD to 57.134 billion USD between July 21st and 28th, 2006.
Releasing a weekly press bulletin, the Central Bank indicated that its total gross reserves decreased by 1.3 billion USD to 82.4 billion USD on July 14th, 2006. Of that, 24.1 billion USD was from privately-owned institutions, including commercial banks while the Central Bank held the rest. Total gross reserves were 83.7 billion USD on July 7th, 2006.
Meanwhile, Turkey repaid 42.2 million USD in foreign debt in the first two days of August.