{"id":342717,"date":"2026-02-18T01:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/342717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:34:33","slug":"turkiye-runs-budget-deficit-of-over-4-9-billion-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/342717\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye runs budget deficit of over $4.9 billion in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s central government budget balance registered a deficit of TL 214.5 billion ($4.9 billion) in January, official figures from the Treasury and Finance Ministry showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>That compared with a shortfall of TL 139.3 billion in the same month a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The budget revenues in January rose by 55% to TL 1.42 trillion, mainly supported by rising tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Expenditures also rose by nearly 55% year-over-year to almost TL 1.64 trillion, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s tax revenues were at TL 1.18 trillion, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Non-interest expenditures rose 32% to TL 1.18 trillion, while interest rate payments rose sharply by 180% to TL 456.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding interest rate payments, the budget posted a surplus of TL 241.8 billion, the data showed. That compared to a surplus of 23.8 billion in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/JN9LXf.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    The Daily Sabah Newsletter\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    Keep up to date with what\u2019s happening in Turkey,<br \/>\n                    it\u2019s region and the world.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    SIGN ME UP\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<br \/>\n                    This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s central government budget balance registered a deficit of TL 214.5 billion ($4.9 billion) in January, official figures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[10471,79,179,18,19,38089,17,162174,5569,11388,2245,2246],"class_list":{"0":"post-342717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-interest-payments","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-revenues","16":"tag-spending","17":"tag-taxes","18":"tag-turkish-economy","19":"tag-turkiye"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116089065577368889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}