ANKARA
Delivering remarks on a draft law on the Turkish Central Management Budget for 2013 at the Turkish Parliamentary General Assembly, Mehmet Simsek stated that they expected the Turkish gross domestic product to be 1.5 trillion TL in 2013.
"We expect our imports to be worth 253 billion USD and exports to be 158 billion USD in 2013. We expect a growth figure of 4 percent and the consumer price index to be 5.3 percent," Simsek noted.
"We expect personnel expenses to be 97.2 billion TL and governmental insurance premiums to be 16.8 billion TL. We expect to spend 33.4 billion TL for goods and various services, the expenses on interests to be 53 billion TL and current transfers to be 151.3 billion TL," Simsek underlined.
"The budget in 2013 is one which aims to protect financial discipline and macroeconomic stability, support growth, employment and investments as well as give priority to education, health and infrastructure," Simsek also said.
