ISTANBUL, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank said on Friday it opened a 10 billion lira ($1.38 billion) repo auction by the traditional, or variable rate, method in the framework of tightening steps taken under its liquidity management.
The maturity of the repo auction was set as Sept. 22. The bank did not open a repo auction by the volume method. ($1 = 7.2554 liras) (Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen; Editing by Jonathan Spicer)