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The new Turkish lira (Turkish: Yeni Türk Lirası) was the currency of Turkey and the de facto independent state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2008 which was a transition period for the removal of six zeroes from the currency. [1] The new lira was subdivided into 100 new kuruş (yeni kuruş).
The new Turkish lira sign was also criticized for allegedly showing a similarity with an upside-down Armenian dram sign. [73] [77] In May 2012, the Unicode Technical Committee accepted the encoding of a new character U+20BA ₺ TURKISH LIRA SIGN for the currency sign, [78] which was included in Unicode 6.2 released in September 2012. [79]
In 1844, the Turkish gold lira was introduced as the new standard denomination. It was divided into 100 silver kuruş and the kuruş continued to circulate until the 1970s. Kuruş eventually became obsolete due to the chronic inflation in Turkey in the late 1970s. A currency reform on 1 January 2005 provided its return as 1 ⁄ 100 of the new lira.
Nature of the new unit Turkish new lira = 1 million old lira: 2005 "new" is an official designation and was dropped in 2009. New Taiwan dollar = 40 000 old dollars: 1949 "new" is an official designation and is still used in official documents today. Argentine austral = 1 000 Peso argentino: 1985 completely new name Yugoslav 1993 dinar = 1 ...
Calling the US dollar a piastre is still common among speakers of Cajun French and New England French. Modern French uses dollar for this unit of currency as well. The term is still used as slang for US dollars in the French-speaking Caribbean islands, most notably Haiti. Piastre is another name for kuruş, 1 ⁄ 100 of the Turkish lira.
Trump's sweeping U.S. presidential victory on Wednesday helped spark a rally of as much as 0.4% in Turkey's lira, to 34.2 to the dollar, its strongest level since mid-October.
Lira is the name of several currency units. It is the current currency of Turkey and also the local name of the currencies of Lebanon and of Syria.It is also the name of several former currencies, including those of Italy, Malta and Israel.
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