ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank announced on Thursday that its foreign currency reserves rose 1.4 billion USD to 61.3 billion USD, in the week of January 19-26, 2007.
In its weekly bulletin, the Central Bank indicated that its total gross reserves (foreign currency plus gold) amounted to 100.8 billion USD on January 12th. Of that, 39.8 billion USD was from privately owned companies, including commercial banks, while the Central Bank held the rest.
Meanwhile, Turkey repaid 1.3 billion USD in foreign debt in January.