The Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) has announced that Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of this year grew by 12.1 percent to TRY 518.6 billion ($178 billion) in current prices and by four percent in constant prices to TRY 34.9 billion ($12 billion), both compared to the same period of the previous year.
Meanwhile, in the third quarter Turkey's seasonal and calendar adjusted GDP increased by 1.3 percent compared to the previous quarter.
According to the TUIK data, Turkey's manufacturing sector contributed 21.2 percent in constant prices to Turkey's overall GDP in the third quarter this year.