It is estimated that trade deficit of Turkiye in 2005 will be approximately USD 43 billion. And current account deficit estimation by year end is around USD 23 billion. We had Asaf Savas Akat's opinion regarding the current account deficit: "If we will consider USD 23 billion deficit as normal, then why did we panic for USD 10 billion current account deficit in 2001 and turned it into a crisis? If we did panic and created that crisis in 2001, then now why do we call this deficit normal? This current account deficit is too high for Turkiye". And he adds: "The foreign trade balance of Turkiye historically has two structural specifications: Our foreign trade balance always has a high deficit. Between 1994-2005, foreign trade deficit was 7% of annual national income. During the same period, we had 7% income surplus of the annual income from services and other invisible incomes. Thus, when invisible incomes such as income from tourism, transportation, construction projects abroad, souvenir sales, labor currency transfers are summed up, the total is equal to or more than the foreign trade deficit. When we sum the two, such as, exportations of goods, exportation of services, transfer payments and incomes on one side, and importation of goods, importations of services and transfer expenses on the other side, Turkiye has income surplus."