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The Turkish lira partially recovered in early 2021 with the government's increase in interest rates. However, the currency began to crash due to inflation and depreciation starting on 21 March 2021, after the sacking of Central Bank chief Naci Ağbal. The Turkish lira reached a then-all-time-low of ₺8.8 to the dollar on 4 June.
Until the 1930s and the Turkish alphabet reform, the Arabic script was used on Turkish coins and banknotes, with پاره for para, قروش for kuruş and ليرا for lira (تورك ليراسي for 'Turkish lira'). In European languages, the kuruş was known as the piastre, whilst the lira was known as the livre in French and the pound in ...
It was introduced on 1 January 2005, replacing the previous lira (which remained valid in circulation until the end of 2005) at a rate of 1 new lira = 1,000,000 old lira. Following its introduction, the official name of the currency was the "New Turkish Lira", but according to the Central Bank, the word "new" (yeni) was only a "temporary ...
Investing.com - The pound and the Turkish lira were pressured lower in currency markets on Monday, while the dollar remained steady against a currency basket in holiday-thinned trade.
At the time of the occupation in 1878, for the purpose of paying the troops the British government instructed that a Turkish lira was to be rated at 9 ⁄ 10 of a pound sterling. [5] There was a complication, however, in that although one lira was equal to 100 Turkish piastres, this rate differed
Turkish lira euro (unofficial) sterling (unofficial) ₺ € £ TRY. EUR GBP kuruş. cent penny. Cypriot pound South Ossetia Georgia: Russian ruble ₽ RUB kopeck: Soviet ruble Transnistria Moldova: Transnistrian ruble: руб PRB (unofficial) kopeck Soviet ruble
The pound, or lira (Greek: λίρα, plural λίρες, and Turkish: lira, Ottoman Turkish: لیره, from the Latin libra via the Italian lira; sign: £, sometimes £C [1] for distinction), was the currency of Cyprus, including the Sovereign Base Areas in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, [2] [3] from 1879 to 2007, when the Republic of Cyprus adopted the euro.
Cypriot lira/pound 1879–2007; merged into the euro, 2008; French livre 781–1794; became the French franc; Israeli lira/pound 1948–1980; replaced by the old shekel in 1980. Italian lira 1861–2002; merged into the euro, 1999 (notes and coins from 2002) Italian East African lira 1938–1941; supplanted by the East African shilling