20 Lira Göktürk Khaganate

Part of Turkey's ongoing commemorative series honoring pre-Ottoman Turkic states, this piece falls within a program that has drawn both numismatic interest and pointed political commentary — the Turkish state has used such issues since the 2010s to anchor national identity to Central Asian steppe polities predating the Seljuk and Ottoman periods by centuries. The Göktürk Khaganate, which dominated the Eurasian steppe from roughly 552 to 744 AD, left the first known inscriptions in a Turkic language, the Orkhon script found in modern Mongolia.

KM# 197 places this among a densely issued run of commemoratives from the Turkish State Mint in that year.