Turkey Repays Usd 494.97 Million In Foreign Debt In November

ANKARA - Turkey repaid a total of 494.97 million U.S. dollars in external debt between November 1 and 20, 2002.
The Central Bank data show that the Treasury repaid 455.20 million U.S. dollars; the Central Bank repaid 7.37 million U.S. dollars; and the administrations with general and consolidated budget paid the remaining 32.40 million U.S. dollars.
Meanwhile, a total of 15 billion 643.38 million U.S. dollars of external debt was repaid from the beginning of the year until November 20, 2002.
According to statistics, Turkey repaid 503.7 million U.S. dollars in January, 7 billion 324.3 million U.S. dollars in February, 823.5 million U.S. dollars in March, 510.5 million dollars in April, 1.6 billion dollars in May, 1 billion 337.90 million U.S. dollars in June, 829.69 million U.S. dollars in July, 558.3 million U.S. dollars in August, 726.48 million U.S. dollars in September and 919.06 million U.S. dollars in October.
The total external debt repayments in 2001 had been 13 billion 53.9 million U.S. dollars.