Two bankers said the central bank's move is aimed at balancing government bond sales by pension funds due to regulation changing the allocation of stocks in the government-sponsored part of the funds. ($1 = 18.8477 liras) (Reporting by Nevzat Devranoglu Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
Messaging: ezgi.erkoyun.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net;)) ANKARA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The Turkish central bank said
that it will purchase up to 8 billion lira ($159 million) worth
of government bonds and sukuk.
It added it plans to purchase some 3 billion lira worth of
government bonds and sukuk via the quotation method on
Wednesday.
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