Turkey sees interest payments seen at 76.4 billion lire in 2018 and 117.3 billion lira in 2019

Turkey sees interest payments at 76.4 billion lire ($12.2 billion) in 2018 and 117.3 billion lira in 2019, according to government document distributed after the finance minister's presentation on Thursday.

Finance Minister Berat Albayrak's presentation also showed Turkey's interest expenses-to-GDP ratio at 2 percent in 2018 and 2.6 percent in 2019.

Albayrak announced the new economic plan at an event in Istanbul earlier on Thursday.