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Turkish Aerospace Industries CEO Mehmet Demiroglu said Spain plans to purchase 15 additional Hurjet trainer aircraft after signing a deal for 30 of the Turkish-made supersonic jets, with deliveries to the European nation scheduled to begin in 2028.ASELSAN announced that its GOKALP Counter-UAV System successfully destroyed a target drone using a hit-to-kill interceptor during a live demonstration at the company's Ogulbey Technology Base, marking the entry of a fully mobile and cost-effective solution into Türkiye's autonomous air defense portfolio.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday criticized the existing global order and the United Nations, warning that binding international accords and judicial rulings are increasingly ignored while the UN system lacks legitimacy for failing to reflect the will of the global community.Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Thursday that Ankara has finalized preparations to submit the Mecca defense agreement to parliament for approval, stressing that the pact provides for mutual defense and does not authorize attacks or troop deployments to other countries.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for discoveries explaining how molecular asymmetry essential to life emerges through autocatalysis, resolving a century-old mystery about homochirality with significant implications for drug development.

Turkey's benchmark stock index started Friday at 118,500.81 points, down 0.45%, or 530.35 points.

At Thursday's close, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was up 0.81% at 119,031.16 points with a daily trading volume of 20.2 billion Turkish liras ($3 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.8470 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT), compared to 6.8480 at the previous close.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate rose to 7.9500 from 7.9320, while British pound traded for 8.7220 Turkish liras, down from 8.7840.

One barrel of Brent crude oil sold for around $43.20 as of 10 a.m. local time (0700GMT) on Friday.

On Monday, Borsa Istanbul will remove two zeros from its indices -- including BIST 100 and BIST 30. And the evening session on Friday, July 24 will not be held.

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