March 2 (SeeNews) - Turkey plans to repay 157 billion lira ($21.4 billion/17.8 billion euro) of debt in the three months through May, the country's finance ministry said.
The treasury will repay 116.5 billion lira in domestic debts, including 23.4 billion lira in interest payments. It will also repay 40.6 billion lira in external debts, some 11.1 billion lira of which will be interest payments, a statement published last week by the ministry showed.
In the March-May period, the treasury intends to borrow a total of 128.2 billion lira from domestic markets through bond auctions and sale of lease certificates, according to the statement.
(1 euro = 8.83022 lira)