what currency do i take to turkey?
Turkish lira
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 Turkey has the world 's 17th largest GDP by PPP and 18th largest nominal GDP . The country is among the founding members of the OECD and the G @-@ 20 major economies . 

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 An estimated 2 @.@ 5 percent of the population are international migrants . Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world , including 2 @.@ 2 million Syrian refugees , as of September 2015 . 

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 Turkey 's efforts to join the European Union in the early 21st century has led to a decrease in the incidence of such changes from local , and particularly the central government . In some cases legislation has restored the names of certain villages ( primarily those housing Kurdish minorities ) . Place names that have formally changed frequently persist in local dialects and languages throughout the ethnically diverse country . 

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 The independence of the Turkic states of the Soviet Union in 1991 , with which Turkey shares a common cultural and linguistic heritage , allowed Turkey to extend its economic and political relations deep into Central Asia , thus enabling the completion of a multi @-@ billion @-@ dollar oil and natural gas pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey . The Baku – Tbilisi – Ceyhan pipeline forms part of Turkey 's foreign policy strategy to become an energy conduit to the West . However Turkey 's border with Armenia , a state in the Caucasus , was closed by Turkey in support of Azerbaijan during the Nagorno @-@ Karabakh War and remains closed . 

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 = = = Russian Revolution and Turkish reoccupation = = = 
