Authority to Publish Turkey's External Debt Statistics Transferred to CBRT

New Era in Data Publication The Turkey External Debt Statistics, currently published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, will be transferred to the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) starting with the fourth quarter data of 2025.
With this new process beginning on March 12, 2026, significant updates will be made to data compilation methods to ensure compliance with international standards.
Methodological Changes and Statistical Integrity With the transfer to the CBRT, a change based on the residency principle will be implemented in the compilation of external debt arising from security liabilities.
In the new method, the residency of the party holding the security will be taken as the basis, rather than the country where the security was issued.
This regulation aims to achieve full statistical harmony between the International Investment Position, Short-Term External Debt Statistics, and Turkey's External Debt Statistics.
The relevant data will be consolidated under the title "Turkey's External Debt Statistics," thereby preventing data redundancy.
Updates to Balance of Payments Statistics As part of the efforts to fully reflect the residency principle in the Balance of Payments Statistics, a security-based calculation method will be adopted for calculating interest expenses arising from security liabilities.
This improvement in the data source will be reflected in the January 2026 Balance of Payments Statistics, which will be published on March 12, 2026.