Automobile sales in Turkey increased 47.3 percent to 53,835 in April 2011 when compared to April 2010.

Turkey became the 6th in European auto sales ranking with this figure, stated Automotive Distributors Association (ODD) on Tuesday.

While automobile sales in Europe in April 2011 dropped 3.8 percent to 1.1 million when compared to April 2010, Turkey reached the highest sales figure both in April and January-April period in 2011.

In January-April period of 2011, auto sales in Turkey increased 70.3 percent to 176,730 when compared to the same period of 2010. With this figure, Turkey became the 8th in European automobile market in 4-month period.

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