Turkey's BIST 100 Index Opens Thursday with 0.66% Gain

Turkey's benchmark stock index, BIST 100, opened Thursday at 12,026.26 points, marking a 0.66% increase or 79.08 points from the previous day.

This comes after the BIST 100 fell by 2.79% on Wednesday, closing at 11,947.18 points with a daily transaction volume of 150.5 billion Turkish liras ($3.07 billion).

The exchange rates as of 9:50 am local time (6:50 GMT) were 49.0350 Turkish liras to the US dollar, 55.5805 to the euro, and 65.1415 to the British pound.