Turkish central government debt stock at $234B as of end-March
Figure up 44% year-on-year, according to Treasury and Finance Ministry data
By Tuba Ongun
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish central government’s gross debt stock totaled 4.5 trillion Turkish liras ($234 billion) at the end of March, according to official figures released on Thursday.
The figure jumped 44% from a year earlier, Treasury and Finance Ministry data showed.
It includes the outstanding debt of public bodies, the Turkish Central Bank, private companies, and households.
Some 37% of the debt stock is denominated in Turkish liras, while the rest is in foreign currency.
While 2.2 trillion liras ($116.5 billion) of the debt was domestic, some 2.3 trillion liras ($117.5 billion) of it was external.
As of March 31, the stock of Treasury receivables totaled 20.6 billion liras ($1.1 billion), the data showed.
The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was around 19.1800 at the end of last month.
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