Caglayan: Turkey’s exports reached $65 bln since beginning of year

Caglayan said that our exports were $114 billion in 2010, exports have reached $65 billion since the beginning of the year and exports in the first 24 days of June have increased to $9.5 bln.

Turkish State Minister for Foreign Trade Zafer Caglayan said that Turkey’s exports had reached $65 billion since the beginning of the year.

“Our exports were $114 billion in 2010. Exports have reached $65 billion since the beginning of the year and exports in the first 24 days of June have increased to $9.5 billion.

We are going to exceed our middle-term target of $127 billion and break our record in exports by reaching $135 billion,” he said at the 18th General Assembly of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly in Istanbul.

Caglayan said that Turkey was the world’s 15th biggest economy according to the purchasing power parity.

“It is our biggest target to make Turkey one of the ten biggest economies of the world,” he said.

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