Turkish Treasury posts $4.35B cash surplus in November

Treasury's interest payments amounted to $1.24 billion last month, Treasury announces

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkey's Treasury and Finance Ministry announced on Friday that Turkish Treasury's cash balance saw a surplus of 4.35 billion Turkish liras ($800 million) in November.

Last month, the Treasury's cash revenues totaled 80.67 billion Turkish liras (nearly $15 billion), increasing 28 percent on a yearly basis.

Its expenditures -- including interest payments of 6.66 billion Turkish liras ($1.24 billion) -- also rose 31.8 percent to 76.3 billion Turkish liras ($14.2 billion).

In November, the Treasury's non-interest expenditures amounted to 69.66 billion Turkish liras ($12.94 billion) -- an 11-billion-lira ($2 billion) surplus -- in the primary balance.

The cash surplus of $4.35 billion represents the Treasury's cash revenues minus expenditures, including interest payments, in November.

The average U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 5.38 last month.

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