ANKARA - Metropolitan municipalities and dependent bodies owe a total amount of 11.96 bln YTL (8.3 billion USD) to Turkish Treasury, said state minister Ali Babacan on Wednesday.
Babacan replied a question motion by Kemal Demirel, MP from Republican People's Party (CHP).
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, together with EGO (Electricity-Gas-Bus Administration) and ASKI (Ankara Water & Sewerage Administration) owes 3.77 billion YTL, and ranks first in the debtors list.
On the other hand, Babacan said 4.2 billion YTL of the 11.09 billion YTL debt, is overdue.

-RECEIVABLE ACCOUNTS OF TREASURY-
The total amount of debts of metropolitan municipalities and dependent municipal bodies as of 2006 are as follows:

Debtor Inst. Overdue Total (YTL)
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Ankara Metropolitan mun. 821.688 2.054.282
EGO (Ankara) 1.146.160 1.268.606
ASKI (Ankara) 204.517
447.199
Izmit Metropolitan mun. 519.942 3.557.478
Izmir Metropolitan mun. 1.292.304 1.457.191
IZSU (Izmir) 0 10.256
GASKI (Gaziantep)
28.034
557.666
Gaziantep Metropolitan mun. 172.661 199.958
Adana Metropolitan mun. 0 518.138
ASKI (Adana) 0
76.097
Adapazary Metropolitan mun. 37.424
308.135
Bursa Metropolitan mun. 0 302.186
DSKI (Diyarbakyr)

0 90.904
KASKI (Kayseri)

0 76.108
ISKI (Istanbul) 0 76.099
ESKI (Erzurum) 0 23.549
Antalya Metropolitan mun. 0 18.200
ASAT (Antalya) 0 13.804
Samsun Metropolitan mun. 0 9.916
ESKI (Eskisehir) 0 6.092
Konya Metropolitan mun. 0
8.918
KOSKI (Konya) 0 5.090
Mersin Metropolitan mun. 0 1.048
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Total 4.222.730 11.096.920