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20 Lira Yunus Emre and the Year of Turkish language
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central design featuring a highly detailed fingerprint rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field, with letters from the Old Turkic alphabet integrated within the fingerprint's ridge patterns, symbolizing the unique identity of the Turkish language. Surrounding the central motif, a circular legend in the field reads 'DIL SÖYLER KULAK DİNLER · KALP SÖYLER KAİNAT DİNLER' (a verse attributed to Yunus Emre), with the Turkish crescent-and-star emblem at the top. The outer legend reads 'TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ' on the left and 'REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE' on the right, separated by dots. The denomination '20 Türk Lirası' and date '2021' appear in the lower field, flanked by decorative dots. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Yunus Emre was a 13th-to-14th-century Anatolian poet who wrote in vernacular Turkish rather than Persian or Arabic — a deliberate choice that made his Sufi verse accessible to ordinary people and helped establish Old Anatolian Turkish as a literary language. UNESCO designated 2021 as the International Year of Yunus Emre and the Turkish Language, marking the 750th anniversary of his birth, though scholars debate whether he lived from roughly 1238 to 1320 or across a somewhat different span entirely.