1 Lira FAO

Issued as part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, which ran through the 1970s and enlisted dozens of countries to mint coins promoting agricultural development and food security. Turkey's participation reflected the FAO's particular focus on rural economies in the developing world during that decade. The program was largely symbolic — these coins entered general circulation rather than funding specific projects — but they represent a coordinated effort across member states that produced an unusually diverse body of coinage within a single calendar decade.