Privatization Board

The government does not mull adding new assets to the privatization portfolio, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has said.

A state of emergency decree has listed fields that indebted Turkish companies can payback to at a stable exchange rate, which is significantly below the current free market rate, amid Turkish authorities' efforts to curb the rise of the U.S. dollar against the Turkish Lira.   

Four companies or groups have qualified in the preliminary tender for the right to operate Turkey’s national lottery, Milli Piyango, Turkey’s Privatization Board said in a written statement May 28.