By Gokhan Ergocun
ISTANBUL (AA) - Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Friday at 10,208.76 points, down 1.56%.
After starting the day at 10,338.24 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index lost 162.02 points from Thursday's close.
The lowest value of the index was 10,053.74, while the daily high was 10,344.91.
The market value of the BIST 100 was around 9.48 trillion Turkish liras ($226.95 billion), with a trading volume of 129 billion liras ($3.09 billion).
A total of 24 stocks on the index rose and 76 dropped, compared to the previous close.
Gold was $4,250.1 per ounce, while Brent crude oil sold for $61 per barrel as of 6.48 pm local time (1548GMT).
The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 41.9499, the euro/Turkish lira exchange rate was 48.9970, and the British pound traded for 56.3180 liras.