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The Moscow Stock Exchange has announced that it has begun trading in the Turkish Lira.

The Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) decided to move its headquarters from Istanbul to Yerevan during an extraordinary general assembly meeting in Tehran on May 16. 

In a written statement on May 17, the organization said a majority of members of the general assembly had decided to relocate FEAS' headquarters to Armenia after 22 years of operations in Turkey.

Turkey's main stock exchange, Borsa Istanbul, has begun single trading sessions, using technology from its partner, the U.S. NASDAQ exchange, it said in a statement on Nov. 30.

Borsa Istanbul head ?brahim Turhan resigned from his position on Feb. 10 to become a candidate in the June parliamentary elections, although he had previously refuted the claims about his possible resignation.