Turkey Repays Usd 98.4 Million In Foreign Debt

ANKARA - Turkey repaid a total of 98.4 million U.S. dollars in external debt between October 1 and 8, 2003.
The Central Bank data show that the Treasury repaid 40.40 million U.S. dollars; the Central Bank repaid 24.14 million U.S. dollars, and the administrations with general and consolidated budget paid the remaining 8.62 million U.S. dollars.
Turkey has repaid 11 billion 409.3 million U.S. dollars in external debt since the beginning of the year.
Turkey repaid 847.51 million U.S. dollars in external debt in January, 1 billion 948.87 million U.S. dollars in February, 1 billion 57.93 million U.S. dollars in March, 915.06 million U.S. dollars in April, 1 billion 133.96 million U.S. dollars in May, 1 billion 936.25 million U.S. dollars in June, 1 billion 851.89 million U.S. dollars in July and 907.35 million U.S. dollars in August and 712.08 million dollars in September.
The total external debt repayments in 2002 had been 17 billion 365.18 million U.S. dollars.
(EÖ-BRC) 09.10.2003