Turkey's short-term external debt stock -- debt that must be paid in the next 12 months -- dropped by 1.7 percent from the end of 2017 to $116.6 billion in October, the Turkish Central Bank reported on Monday.
'Specifically, in this period, banks’ short-term external debt stock decreased by 11.9 percent to $59.2 billion and other sectors’ short-term external debt stock increased by 1.9 percent to $51.7 billion,' the bank said in a statement.
The short-term debt of public sector -- mainly composed of public banks -- increased 3.7 percent compared to the end of 2017 to $22.9 billion in October.
The Private sector's short-term foreign debt dropped by 8.2 percent to $88 billion during the same period.
Almost half the country's short-term external debt stock was in dollars -- 49.5 percent -- followed by euros (29.8 percent), Turkish liras (18.4 percent), and other currencies (2.3 percent).
By Gokhan Ergocun
Anadolu Agency
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