Foreign exchange reserves of the Turkish Central Bank rose to 70.844 billion USD as of October 16, the bank said on Thursday.
The reserves were 70.672 billion USD on October 9.
In its weekly bulletin, the Central Bank said that Turkey paid back 533.12 million USD of foreign debt between October 1 and 21. Turkey's foreign debt repayments amounted to 10.104 billion USD since the beginning of 2009.
Turkey repaid 15.7 billion USD in 2008.
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