{"id":31584,"date":"2018-06-25T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31584"},"modified":"2018-06-25T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T00:51:12","slug":"the-turkish-lira-is-climbing-ahead-of-sundays-snap-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31584","title":{"rendered":"The Turkish lira is climbing ahead of Sunday&#8217;s snap elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static2.businessinsider.com\/image\/5a6c9afd5124c9b90c7c6ba4-800\/turkey-says-us-has-promised-to-stop-arming-ypg-warns-washington-on-manbij.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets his supporters during a ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey January 27, 2018. Yasin Bulbul\/Presidential Palace\/Handout via REUTERS\" \/>Thomson Reuters<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/currencies\/usd-try?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Turkish lira<\/a> was up more than 1% on Friday.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s ahead of a historic presidential election this weekend.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/currencies\/usd-try?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Follow the Turkish lira in real time here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/currencies\/usd-try?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">lira<\/a> rose Friday ahead of Turkey&#8217;s historic snap elections this weekend, which will also mark the country&#8217;s shift from a parliamentary system to a more powerful presidency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lira was up 1.3% to 4.6672 versus the dollar at 2 p.m. ET.&nbsp;Turkey&#8217;s central bank has been trying to prop up the lira ahead of the election, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/turkish-lira-usd-rallying-after-rate-hike-2018-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">raising rates earlier this month<\/a> for the third time in two months to 17.75%.<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/turkish-lira-sliding-ahead-of-sundays-snap-elections-2018-6-1027311852?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOW WATCH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sara-blakely-spanx-ceo-offers-advice-redefine-failure-retail-2016-7?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Learning to celebrate failure at a young age led to this billionaire&#8217;s success<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cruise-ship-reality-2018-3?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Disappointing photos show what cruise ships actually look like in real life<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fixer-upper-secrets-chip-joanna-gaines-2017-9?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">30 behind-the-scenes secrets about Chip and Joanna Gaines&#8217; &#8216;Fixer Upper&#8217;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/melania-jacket-i-really-dont-care-texas-immigrant-visit-2018-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Melania Trump flew to Texas to visit immigrant children wearing a jacket that says &#8216;I really don&#8217;t care, do u?&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/commodities\/news\/oil-opec-prices-up-after-deal-to-raise-output-2018-6-1027311000?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\" >Oil is rallying after OPEC reportedly strikes a deal to raise production<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=06-gAlar4CY:OKCVDhhocFg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~4\/06-gAlar4CY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~3\/06-gAlar4CY\/turkish-lira-sliding-ahead-of-sundays-snap-elections-2018-6-1027311852\">feedproxy.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomson Reuters The Turkish lira was up more than 1% on Friday. That&#8217;s ahead of a historic presidential election this weekend. Follow the Turkish lira in real time here. The lira rose Friday ahead of Turkey&#8217;s historic snap elections this weekend, which will also mark the country&#8217;s shift from a parliamentary system to a more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15909,4135,3442,16109,15811,7121,16110,3844,4564],"class_list":["post-31584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-ahead","tag-election","tag-historic","tag-lira","tag-more","tag-real","tag-snap","tag-time","tag-turkish"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/turkey-says-us-has-promised-to-stop-arming-ypg-warns-washington-on-manbij1529887873.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}