Currency in Turkey 2009

Turkey to acknowledgment to its above bill TL, replacing YTL in 2009

Turkey's above Turkish Lira (TL) bill would alter the New Turkish Lira (YTL), which was launched afterwards the country removed six zeros from its currency, on Jan. 1, 2009.

Turkey to acknowledgment to its above bill TL, replacing YTL in 2009

“Our banknotes and bill will be renamed as TL and Kurus and they will access into apportionment on January 1st, 2009 with new designs, sizes and added aegis features," Yilmaz told a columnist conference.

"This is traveling to be the additional allotment of the budgetary reform," he added.

The aggrandizement botheration accomplished in Turkey over the accomplished few decades until aboriginal 2000s acquired astringent abrasion in amount of Turkish lira. The bill came to barter at about 1.65 actor lira per U.S. dollar in backward 2001.

In 2003, Turkish assembly anesthetized a law that accustomed abatement of six zeroes from the currency, and apportionment of the new lira. It was alien on January 1st, 2005 replacing the antecedent lira.

TL bill would aswell be adapted and it would be altered in architecture to euro coins, Yilmaz added. Some European countries accept been accusatory that YTL bill are acclimated in automat machines instead of euro coins, which accept a college value.

Yilmaz added that Central coffer would accomplish accessible new sizes, designs and aegis appearance of the new banknotes and bill on October 3rd.

Both YTL and TL would be in apportionment for one year until 2010 to complete a abounding backup with the new currency.

As of Jan 1, the anew advised TL banknotes and bill would access circulation.

Yilmaz said the angel of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the architect of avant-garde Turkey, would abide to be printed on all banknotes and coins.

Earlier media letters appropriate the angel of Yunus Emre, a 13th aeon artist from Anatolia who is advised by abounding as the a lot of important name in the history of Turkish poetry, would alter Ataturk on TL banknotes and coins, an attack possibly to accession eyebrows in Turkey.