ANKARA 

Turkey’s benchmark stock index rose 0.76% from previous close to hit highest closing level in its history at 123,556.10 points on Tuesday.

Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index started the day at 121,886.80 points. As of the daily close, it advanced 936.33 points from Monday’s close of 122,619.77 points.

During Tuesday’s trading, the index’s hovered between 121,504.06 points and 123,804.00 points.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 849.2 billion Turkish liras ($144 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 12.6 billion Turkish liras ($2.1 billion).

On the second transaction day of the week,

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