Turkish Gvt Submits Draft Budget Of 2008 To Parliament

ANKARA - Turkish government submitted Tuesday the draft budget of 2008 to the parliament.
Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan took the floor at the parliament general assembly to brief MPs on the new budget.
The Planning & Budget Committee of the Turkish parliament adopted the draft budget on November 22nd.
The draft envisages budgetary expenditures as 222.5 billion new Turkish liras (YTL) and the revenues around 204.6 billion YTL.
According to the draft, the budget deficit will be 17.9 billion YTL in 2008.