As lira plummets, Bulgarian shoppers flock across border to Turkey

With the value of the lira plummeting against foreign currencies, the Turkish currency has now reached 8.0 to the Bulgarian Lev. Shopkeepers in Edirne, near the Bulgarian border, say Bulgarians are flooding into Turkey to buy goods.

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The Turkish lira is plummeting on the Foreign Exchange (FX) market, and with its tumbling value has come a flood of Bulgarian shoppers to the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne, near the Bulgarian border. 

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