July 16 (SeeNews) - Turkey's central government budget turned to a surplus of 3.1 billion Turkish lira ($1.6 billion/1.2 billion euro) in the first half of the year from a deficit of 6.7 billion lira a year ago, the country's finance ministry said.
Budget revenue rose 17.7% on the year to 190.9 billion lira through June, while budget spending increased by 11.2% to 187.9 billion lira, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
In June alone, the budget gap narrowed to 1.2 billion lira from 6.3 billion lira a year earlier. Budget revenues grew 26.6% on the year to 31.4 billion lira and budget spending rose 4.9% to 32.6 billion.
(1 euro = 2.5227 Turkish lira)