Turkey Repays $15.3 Billion In Foreign Debt In 2003

ANKARA - Turkey repaid a total of 15 billion 365.87 million U.S. dollars in foreign debt in 2003.
The Central Bank data show that foreign debt repayment of Turkey decreased by 11.5 percent from 17 billion 365.18 million to 15 billion 365.87 million U.S. dollars in 2003 when compared with 2002.
Treasury repaid 11 billion 498.50 million U.S. dollars; the Central Bank repaid 329.30 million U.S. dollars, and the administrations with general and consolidated budget paid the remaining 872.03 million U.S. dollars in 2003.
Turkey repaid 2 billion 604.45 million U.S. dollars of foreign debt to International Monetary Fund (IMF) and 61.59 million U.S. dollars to Turkish Defense Fund in 2003.
Meanwhile, Turkey repaid 969.79 million U.s. dollars in foreign debt in December 2003.
The Central Bank data show that the Treasury repaid 704.70 million U.S. dollars; the Central Bank repaid 56.84 million U.S. dollars, and the administrations with general and consolidated budget paid the remaining 85.19 million U.S. dollars.
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.
(BRC-AÖ) 02.01.2004