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20 000 Lira 70 years of the Parliament
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 2005 |
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| Reverse description | Central motif depicts a detailed frontal view of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey building in Ankara, rendered in fine relief against a mirror-polished field. Below the building, a laurel wreath frames the circular seal of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, featuring the crescent and star. The date 23 NİSAN 1920, marking the foundation of the parliament, appears on a ribbon at the base. The bilingual legend PARLAMENTER DEMOKRASİDE 70 İNCİ YIL / 70TH YEAR IN PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY curves along the upper periphery in two arching lines. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkey's Grand National Assembly was founded in April 1920 in Ankara — deliberately outside Istanbul, which remained under Allied occupation — giving Atatürk's provisional government its constitutional footing before the War of Independence was even won. The seventieth anniversary fell in 1990, by which point Turkey had already experienced three military coups since 1960, each time with the parliament dissolved by the intervening junta.
The .925 silver specification places this squarely in Turkey's commemorative program of the late 1980s and early 1990s, issues produced largely for collector export rather than domestic circulation.