Turkey's exports rose 22.1 percent to $9.56 billion year-on-year, country's statistical authority, Turkstat, said on Monday.
According to Turkstat's foreign trade figures for January, Turkey's imports also increased 44.3 percent to $6.87 billion, Anadolu News Agency reported.
Foreign trade deficit reached $7.31 billion with an increase of 89.4 percent.
In January 2010, foreign trade deficit was $3.86 billion.
Meanwhile, ratio of exports to imports dropped to 56.7 percent in January 2011 from 67 percent in January 2010.
In the same period last year, Turkey's exports were $7.83 billion and its imports were $11.69 billion.