Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — Internet shopping in Turkey grew 52 percent in value, to 17 billion liras ($9.5 billion), in the first nine months of 2011, compared with the year-earlier period, according to Soner Canko, who heads the Interbank Card Center that monitors credit-card spending in the country.<\/p>\n
Turkey\u2019s e-commerce is \u201cone of the fastest-growing in the world,\u201d Canko said in an e-mailed statement today. The number of transactions rose 37 percent to 91.7 million in the nine months, he said.<\/p>\n
Services accounted for 2.2 billion liras of Internet transactions, followed by air travel, including tickets worth 2 billion liras, and purchases of electronic goods worth 1.5 billion liras, the statement said.<\/p>\n
–Editors: Alan Purkiss, Chris Peterson<\/p>\n
To contact the reporter on this story: Ercan Ersoy in Istanbul eersoy@bloomberg.net.<\/p>\n
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Benedikt Kammel at bkammel@bloomberg.net.<\/p>\n
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