Turkey Repays $358.59 Million In Foreign Debt

ANKARA - Turkey repaid a total of 358.59 million U.S. dollars in external debt between October 1 and 15, 2003.
The Central Bank data show that the Treasury repaid 292.00 million U.S. dollars; the Central Bank repaid 31.66 million U.S. dollars, and the administrations with general and consolidated budget paid the remaining 9.69 million U.S. dollars.
Turkey has repaid 11 billion 669.49 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.
(GC-AY) 16.10.2003