ANKARA
The flow of the net foreign direct investments in Turkey recorded 11 billion USD in the first 11 months of 2012.
According to the Ministry of Economy data, the flow of the net foreign direct investments in Turkey decreased by 9.7 percent and recorded 11,336 million USD, in the term of January-November 2012 compared to the same period of the previous year.
International direct capital decreased by 15.6 percent while net real asset investments increased by 23.2 percent and reached 2,341 million USD in the term of January-November 2012 compared to the same period of the previous year.
The 75.2 percent of the cash capital flow was from the EU countries in the same term. Compared to the previous year, that was decreased by 37 percent, while the flow from Asia increased by 103 percent.
In November 2012, 727 million USD worth international direct investments entered Turkey. 364 million USD of that was from EU countries and 134 million UDS of them was from Asia. A total of 49 million USD worth capital entered Turkey in November 2012.
Reporting by Merve Ozlem Cakir