* Move part of exit strategy
* Pre-crisis forex reserve was 11 pct
* Lira trading close to two-month highs
ISTANBUL, July 29 (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank raised the foreign currency reserve requirement for the country's banks to 10 percent from 9.5 percent, according to the state's Official Gazette, as it continues to unwind emergency measures adopted during the global financial crisis.
The lira reserve requirement was maintained at 5 percent, Thursday's edition of the Gazette said. The reserves are used to cover the risk of bad loans.
The central bank said in April that it would gradually bring foreign exchange liquidity facilities back to pre-crisis levels as global markets returned to normal.
The bank cut the foreign exchange reserve requirement from 11 percent to 9 percent in Dec 2008 to provide more foreign exchange liquidity to the banking sector during the peak of the global crisis, which wiped out 4.7 percent of Turkey's gross domestic product last year.
However the Turkish economy is now enjoying robust recovery, growing 11.7 percent in the first quarter.
The central bank began lifting the foreign exchange reserve requirement in April, withdrawing around $700 million of forex liquidity from the market as it raised interest rates to 9.5 percent from 9.0 percent.
Turkey's lira