National debt of Turkey
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The national debt of Turkey is the entire stock of direct, fixed-term, contractual, financial obligations of the state of the
Domestic debt
At the end of 2017, the total, gross state-debt of Turkey stood at approximately TL954 bn (appr. $221 bn), equivalent to about 30% of GDP.
Foreign debt
At the end of December 2017, the gross, foreign-currency denominated debt of the Turkish state stood at $453.2 bn (about 53% of GDP), while Turkey's net foreign debt was $291.2 bn (about 34% of GDP). Loans guaranteed by the Turkish Treasury stood at $13.8 billion during the same period.[1]
In February 2018, the country's foreign-currency reserves stood at the equivalent of $114.5 bn.[2]
Concerns
While some analysts, in the recent past, have dismissed concerns about Turkey's "debt problem" as "alarmist" and based on "fallacies,"
In April 2018, the
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister
Financial markets
As of 2018, Turkey's bond market, trading in the local currency, is the 6th largest among emerging market countries.[6][note 6] At the end of 2009, the corporate-bond market in Turkey amounted to TL481 million (US$340million), going up to TL1.4 billion5 (US$1.9 billion) by 2010 and to TL4.3 billion at the end of 2011.[6] By 2017, the market totaled approximately TL18 bn ($5.2 bn), although a series of corporate defaults and restructurings has somewhat "dampened investor appetite."[7]
The average coupon rate on corporate debt issued between 2015 and 2017 was 12.1%, compared with 11.1% on short-term deposits and 10.4% for 2-year government bonds.[7]
The Turkish
See also
Notes
- financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year. See: Central government debt, total (% of GDP) for Turkey, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- ^ The Turkish Treasury calculates Turkish Lira (TL) equivalents of debt stock amounts from original, foreign currencies on the basis of the selling rate at the relevant end of period. See: Debt Management Reports, Treasury, p. 13
- ^ Turkish 2017 GDP was TL3.1 tr ($722 bn). See: April 2018 Treasury Report.
- ^ "Countries all around the world have been issuing massive volumes on government debt for years – some with high rates of inflation (Turkey) and others with low rates of inflation (Japan) – without any problem of “funding” at all. The reason is that the deficits, after all, provide the funds that the Government borrows back!" :from Mitchell, William (2009) "D for debt bomb; D for drivel"
- ^ About 80% of corporate debt is held by domestic banks
- Bank of International Settlements, 2017
References
- ^ a b April 2018 Treasury Report, Undersecretariat of Treasury, Turkey
- ^ Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
- ^ Pitel, Laura (8 March 2018). "Moody's downgrades Turkish debt". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
- ^ "TÜSİAD warns of huge external debt". Hürriyet. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
- ^ a b Courcoulas, Constantine; Kandemir, Asli (29 March 2018). "Turkey's Bill for Debt-Fueled Economic Growth Starts to Fall Due". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
- ^ a b c Turkey: bonds, Cbonds
- ^ a b Courcoulas, Constantine; Kandemir, Asli (24 August 2017). "Turkey Corporate Bonds Need a Rescue Plan, Fund Manager Says". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
External links
- Turkey fact sheet, OECD, 2017