Turkish Treasury posts $4.5B cash deficit in December

Interest payments amounted to $490M in December, according to Turkish Treasury

By Tuba Sahin

ISTANBUL (AA) - The Turkish Treasury's cash balance posted a deficit of 23.7 billion Turkish liras ($4.5 billion) last month, the Treasury and Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.

The Treasury's cash revenues reached 66.1 billion Turkish liras ($12.5 billion), up 20 percent year-on-year in December.

Its expenditures -- including interest payments of 2.59 billion Turkish liras ($490 million) -- amounted to 91 billion Turkish liras ($17.2 billion).

Last month, the Treasury's non-interest expenditures reached 88.4 billion Turkish liras ($16.7 billion) -- a deficit of 22.3 billion Turkish liras ($4.2 billion) -- in the primary balance.

The cash balance represents the Treasury's cash revenues minus expenditures, including interest payments.

The average U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate in December 2018 was 5.31.

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