January 21 (SeeNews) - The Turkish Central Bank (CBRT) on Monday said that it has started distributing to its shareholders a total of 40.5 billion Turkish lira ($6.82 billion/6.15 billion euro) in advance dividend and reserve funds.
The bank is distributing 35.2 billion Turkish lira in advance dividends from its profit of the 2019 financial year and 5.3 billion Turkish lira in reserve funds from its profit in 2018.
CBRT decided to pay the dividend and reserves at an extraordinary general meeting that took place on Monday, the bank said in a statement.
(1 euro = 6.57829 Turkish lira)