150 Lira World Cup Argentina '78

Turkey issued this coin as part of the wave of FIFA World Cup commemoratives that swept through peripheral football nations in the late 1970s — countries with little connection to the tournament itself but eager to participate in the global silver commemorative market that the 1978 Argentina competition generated. The tournament itself was deeply controversial: hosted by a military junta that had seized power in 1976, it was later documented that the regime used the event as a propaganda exercise, with allegations of match-fixing surrounding Argentina's crucial 6–0 victory over Peru.

KM#917 is a one-year type with no follow-on issues in the series.