Turkish Treasury reports $216B gross debt stock

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey’s government gross debt stock -- the outstanding debt of public sector institutions, the Central Bank, private companies and households -- stood at 783.1 billion Turkish liras (around $216 billion) at the end of February, the Treasury said Monday.

Most of the debt -- 478.6 billion liras ($132 billion) -- was in Turkish currency and 304.5 billion liras ($84 billion) was in foreign currency.

The central government debt stock stood at 800.2 billion Turkish liras ($220.3 billion at the time) at the end of January.