Turkey earned $ 3.7 billion through privatization

This year, Turkey continues to sell state assets: total revenues from

privatization for 2012 will be $3.7 billion, the Turkish public

service for privatization (OIB) says.

Tthe biggest share of this income comes from the sale of

Halkbank for $2.5 billion, Trend reports.

In addition, this year Turkey privatized the petrochemical holding

PETKİM, the pulp and paper company ACISELSAN and the electricity company

Kayseri. From the sale of these three assets the state received $186.5 million.