Türkiye’s short-term external debt stock totaled $162.8 billion as of the end of June, up by 9.2 percent from the end of the last year, the Central Bank figures showed on Thursday.
Banks’ foreign debt stock was up by 2.7 percent to $64 billion and other sectors’ debt stock rose by 0.8 percent to $54.5 billion, the bank revealed.
Short-term foreign exchange loans of the banks received from abroad increased by 6.9 percent to $11.5 billion, it added.
Some 48.2 percent of the total debt was in the US dollar, while the euro (25.1 percent), Turkish lira (9.3 percent) and other currencies (17.4 percent) followed it.—Xinhua
