25 Lira National Assembly

Issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, this coin commemorates the body convened by Mustafa Kemal in Ankara on April 23, 1920 — a direct political counter to the Ottoman government in Istanbul, which was then operating under Allied occupation. The Assembly functioned as both a legislative chamber and a war council during the Turkish War of Independence, conducting military campaigns while simultaneously drafting the legal framework that would abolish the sultanate three years later.

KM#897 was struck in a single commemorative year with no circulation issue equivalent.