ANKARA - Turkish Treasury will repay 46.6 million USD in foreign debt this week.
Treasury will make the biggest repayment --21.2 million USD-- on May 17th and will pay 5.6 million USD on May 14th, 13.6 million USD on May 15th, 6 million USD on May 16th and 0.1 million USD on May 18th.
Treasury repaid 1.2 billion USD of foreign debt in January, 2.8 billion USD in February, 848.3 million USD in March and 1.3 billion USD in April 2007. Total amount of repayment by the Treasury has reached 6.6 billion USD since the beginning of 2007.
The Treasury made 9.5 billion USD of repayment in 2002, 11.4 billion USD in 2003, 11.7 billion USD in 2004, 16.2 billion USD in 2005 and 18.7 billion USD last year.
Meanwhile, Treasury will hold an auction on May 15th to sell five-year debenture bonds with fixed coupon payments.
The bonds will be issued on May 16th. They will be repaid on March 7th, 2012.