Istanbul — Turkey’s new central bank governor, Naci Agbal,  raised the benchmark interest rate aggressively at his first meeting in  a move that strengthened the lira.

The monetary policy committee increased the one-week repo rate to 15% from 10.25% on Thursday — the most in two years — as forecast by most analysts polled by Bloomberg. The central bank said all funding will be provided through the main policy rate...

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