Turkey Repays $730.57 Million In Foreign Debt

ANKARA - Turkey repaid a total of 730.57 million U.S. dollars in external debt between December 1 and 24, 2003.
The Central Bank data show that the Treasury repaid 522.40 million U.S. dollars; the Central Bank repaid 54.95 million U.S. dollars, and the administrations with general and consolidated budget paid the remaining 30.16 million U.S. dollars.
Turkey has repaid 15 billion 126.65 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, 712.08 million dollars in September, 1 billion 498.42 million U.S. dollars in October and 1 billion 586.76 million U.S. dollars in November.
The total external debt repayments in 2002 had been 17 billion 365.18 million U.S. dollars.
(GC-Öª) 25.12.2003