The level of the Turkish lira's exchange rate on the secondary market was 36.67 per dollar. During the middle of the week, the lira sharply fell and reached the mark of 42 lira per dollar in the last trades, after the ruling party's chairman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was accused of corruption and providing assistance to a terrorist group.
The Istanbul stock exchange announced a temporary halt to trading after the main index fell by 6.87% at the start of trading, and a mechanism to halt trading in the market was activated.
"Reuters"
