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18 Jul 2016
Turkish Parliament evacuated on report of imminent attack - reports
Newswires and twitter reports note that Turkish Parliament has been evacuated amid information about an imminent attack on the building.
"We have been informed of an attack. The Meclis is being evacuated," the Cumhuriyet newspaper quotes member of the People's’ Democracy Party Ziya Pir.
USD/TRY has risen to retest session highs after the headlines and it was last trading around 2.9650. Last Friday it reached a high of 3.050 on the back of the coup attempt in Turkey.