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1 Kuruş Kara-Khanid Khanate
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a stylized pennant-shaped flag bearing the tamgha (dynastic emblem) of the Kara-Khanid Khanate is depicted on a flagpole in the central field. The dates '940 - 1040' appear in the exergue beneath the flag. The surrounding legend along the upper arc reads 'BÜYÜK TÜRK DEVLETLERİ' (Great Turkish States) and along the lower arc 'KARAHANLILAR' (Kara-Khanids), all in Latin script, commemorating the Kara-Khanid Khanate as part of a Turkish states series. |
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The Kara-Khanid Khanate was the first Turkic dynasty to adopt Islam as a state religion, converting in the mid-10th century — a political shift that reoriented the entire Central Asian steppe. Turkey's 2015 series honoring historical Turkic states reflects Ankara's long-running project of situating the modern republic within a civilizational lineage stretching back well before the Ottomans.