Turkey's exports increase over 15 percent in October

By Tuba Sahin

İSTANBUL (AA) - Turkey's exports rose 15.6 percent year-on-year to $13.5 billion in October, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Wednesday.

In his speech at the Turkish Export Week in Istanbul, Yildirim said: "The value of Turkish exports in the month is the highest figure of all times for October and the rise --15.6 percent-- is the highest increase in last 10 years' October figure."

Yildirim said exports also climbed 11 percent to reach $128.7 billion in the first 10 months of the year.

Turkey's total exports in the last 12-month period rose 10.7 percent compared with the previous 12 months to stand at $154.2 billion.

Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci also spoke at the event.

"We achieved our mid-term program's target two months earlier. If we add the data of coming two months, we will exceed mid-term program's second revision of $156.5 billion," Zeybekci said.