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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

The Turkish Lira’s Armenian Faux Pas | EurasiaNet.org

The Turkish Lira’s Armenian Faux Pas
March 6, 2012 - 8:12am, by Giorgi Lomsadze

Tensions between Turkey and Armenia have manifested themselves before in many forms, but, now, some ultra-nationalist numismatists have come up with a brand-new cause for alarm -- the new symbol for the Turkish lira, they claim, is pretty much the inverted symbol of the Armenian dram.

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