By Ugur Gurses Hurriyet Daily News, Istanbul Thursday, January 4, 2018
The Turkish Central Bank's gold reserves have reached a record-high 564.8 tons, mainly due to the bank's policy of replacing a large amount of U.S. dollar reserves with bullion.
Overall gold reserves of the Central Bank reached $107.7 billion in value at the end of 2017, up $1.6 billion from a year earlier.
The value of gold held by the Central Bank increased to $23.5 billion from $14.1 billion in 2017.
The increase in gold reserves was supported by the 102 tons of gold deposited by banks to the Central Bank as required reserves, increasing their gold reserves by a total of nearly 86 tons. ...
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