The Turkish Central Bank said its survey for the second half of July saw the figure up from 66,547 million U.S. dollars according to a previous survey.

The bank said year-end inflation was expected to stand at 7.33 percent, 0.08 point higher than the results of the previous survey.

The survey also revised year-end growth rate up to 6.1 percent from 5.9 percent.

The survey said prices of consumer items would increase 0.05 percent for July and that year-end USD-TL rate would stand 1.65.