Turkey plans to secure $2.8 billion credit form the World Bank in 2009, Turkish Economy Minister Mehmet Simsek said in the text of speech released Thursday on the Web site of the Turkish Treasury, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported.
In the speech made earlier Thursday to a parliamentary budget committee, he said $1.5 billion of the credit will be used for power network, municipal infrastructure, renewable energy, health, and social security reform projects.
The Turkish government previously said it plans to secure $6.2 billion credits from the World Bank between 2008-2011.