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Turkey returned to the ranks of the bargain travel destinations-at least for services priced in Turkish liras.

Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations 2008

Those gains saw the value of the bank rise to 6.72 billion liras $4 billion.

Turkey's Denizbank Is up for Sale; Shares Jump Joe Parkinson 2011

The lira rose to 1.8725 liras against the dollar, 1.8773 liras in early trading Wednesday early.

Turkey Fights Lira's Decline Yeliz Candemir 2011

But it is almost certain that the newly minted drachmas and liras would quickly depreciate relative to currencies such as the pound or the dollar because of actual and expected inflation, depressing their bonds value, and drachma interest rates would rise, perhaps a lot.

Europe Must Address Its Fundamental Economic Issues 2012

Denizbank shares were trading 3.58% lower at 14.80 Turkish liras, while the overall Istanbul market was 0.78% higher.

Dexia Considers Options for Denizbank Yeliz Candemir 2011

A new or restored system of national currencies would be more credible, because Italy should be able and willing to meet its obligations denominated in new liras.

An Exit Strategy From the Euro Robert Barro 2012

With a young population, Turkey has experienced rapid growth in mobile telecommunications, although recent government caps on charges made a dent in last year's results for Turkcell, whose revenue fell by 0.7 billion liras in the last quarter from a year before.

Tech's Top 25 2011

As the market digested news that the bank would be sold, Denizbank shares jumped 21% in Monday trading to 10.12 liras, marking the biggest increase since February last year.

Turkey's Denizbank Is up for Sale; Shares Jump Joe Parkinson 2011

Traders reported that the bank began buying liras late afternoon in Istanbul, sending the currency almost 1% higher to 1.85 lira to the dollar, after an earlier sale of $750 million at auction failed to have any significant impact.

Turkey Intervenes to Boost the Lira Joe Parkinson 2011

The Daily Telegraph reports that the good citizens of Germany, whose former currency the Deutschmark was generally held to be as solid as a rock in a raging sea of liras, drachmas, pesetas, escudos and, dare one say, French Francs, have taken to filleting out Euro notes emanating from Southern Europe from their cash when they go to the Cashpoint:

Something Rotten In The State of The Euro? 2008