"Turkey boosts investment by 11.8 pct in '09
By Hatice Aydogdu
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ANKARA, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Turkish public investment spending will rise by 11.8 percent year-on-year to 36.9 billion lira ($29.66 billion) in 2009, Deputy Prime Minister Nazim Ekren said on Friday.
Ekren, who is in charge of economic coordination, told Reuters in an interview the government would push ahead with the privatisation of partly state-owned Halkbank this year if market conditions were favourable."
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