Turkey set to issue bonds for individual investors

ISTANBUL

The Turkish Treasury will start issuing dollar- and euro-denominated bonds to individual investors next Monday, Dec. 17, according to Turkey's treasury and finance minister.

"People have turned towards deposits. So we need to familiarize capital markets with investments," Berat Albayrak told an investor relations summit in Istanbul on Wednesday.

Albayrak also said the Treasury will again issue gold bonds, as it did on September.

"We need to activate balance sheets," he said.

Reporting by Elif Ferhan Yesilyurt:Writing by Tuba Sahin