50 000 Lira 1994 World Cup Soccer

Turkey hosted no matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup — the tournament was held entirely in the United States — and the Turkish national team did not qualify. This coin was one of dozens of similar commemoratives issued by mints worldwide capitalizing on FIFA's licensing program, which allowed any member association's mint to produce official World Cup coinage regardless of participation. The KM#1021.1 designation distinguishes it from a variant reverse die used in the same series.