Turkey’s trade gap narrowed in March from a year earlier as exports rose for the second straight month and the cost of energy imports declined. The deficit narrowed to $4.95 billion from $6.19 billion in March 2015, compared with the median estimate of $5 billion in a Bloomberg survey. Imports dropped 5.2 percent to $17.8 billion, while exports rose 2.3 percent to $12.8 billion, Turkey’s state statistics institute in Ankara said on its website Friday. Lower energy bills supported the improvement in the trade balance as the cost of importing mineral fuels, including crude oil, declined 41 percent to $2.2 billion last month from $3.7 billion a year earlier, according to preliminary data published by the Ministry of Trade and Customs. The lira was stronger after the figures were announced, trading 0.4 percent higher at 2.8030 per dollar at 10:10 a.m. in Istanbul.