UPDATE - Turkey's Borsa Istanbul up over 2% at close

UPDATES WITH MORE DETAILS

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index closed Thursday at 1,498.32 points, up 2.13%.

Starting the day at 1,450.54 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index earned 31.32 points over the midweek's close of 1,467.00 points.

During the day, the index's deepest point was 1,431.32 points, while the highest was 1,498.43.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 1.13 trillion Turkish liras ($153.3 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 35.34 billion Turkish liras ($4.78 billion).

On the fourth transaction day of the week, 93 stocks on the index rose, six fell, and one was unchanged compared to Wednesday.

The highest trading volumes were posted by private lenders Garanti, real estate investment company Emlak GYO, and gold miner Koza.

Automotive firm Otokar was the best performer, with its shares up 10%, while stocks of energy company Odas dropped the most, losing 2.04%.

The price of one ounce of gold was $1,840.95 by market close, down from $1,847.51 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was around $55.60 per barrel as of 6.15 p.m. local time (1515GMT) on Thursday.