The Turkish currency fell against its American counterpart, in today’s trading, and this comes in light of the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place on Sunday, amid expectations that the presidential race is heading to a run-off.
And by 11:21 Moscow time, the dollar exchange rate rose by 0.42% to 19.6662 Turkish liras, according to Bloomberg data.
Before that, the Turkish currency fell to 19.70 lira against the dollar, and the following is the direction of the lira’s trading today:19.66
On the Istanbul Stock Exchange, the main Borsa Istanbul 100 Index fell by 2.22% to 4,689.38 points.
This article was originally published by RT.
