What is the best currency to use in Turkey?

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Feudalserfer

Turkosh lira. See link below for further info.

moesha

Turkish Lira or sterling. you can get some good rates from the shops when changing sterling.

Bernadette

YTL

cymry3jones

Euros. A few Turkish Lira might be useful if you need to go to a public toilet. but then the toilets at the mosque are free, and clean.

Ken J

They will usually sell you 4 of anything for a tenner//Â£10 lol...its true!! Now I have 4 turkish wives!!

ozgeonemli

dont take travellers cheque because u have to pay $2 each to cash it . Best way is to get euro or Us dollar and u can exchange it anywhere.

Turkish lira but be sure it is Yeni Turk LirasÄ± (YTL) euros and american dolars are going to be fine too, but best is YTL

one_faithful_mo

Get Lira from here so to save yourself two times paying conversion rates. You pay one conversion rate and/or commission for changing to euro then you get there you have to again pay for exchange rate and/or commission. Take as much Lira as you think you will spend whilst there and some Euro of course. If you got Lira left when back you can either keep them for future use or just give them back to where you originally exchanged it. They normally dont charge you commission again if you purchased them originally from them. good luck

LovinMyBabyBoys

Butterball

haha

The New Turkish Lira (TRY) was introduced on January 1 2005 and both this and the old Turkish Lira (TL) will be in circulation throughout 2005. The old Turkish Lira will be withdrawn from circulation from January 1 2006. After this it will only be possible to exchange old Turkish Lira for New Turkish Lira at the Central Bank for a period of 10 years.

fidget

Change a small amount into Turkish Lira before you travel but expect to change more in Turkey where you get a better exchange rate than in the UK (2.81 YTL = Â£1 at the time of writing in Turkey).

Don't change money at the airport because they charge commission, this is not the norm in Turkey. You can find a "doviz" (exchange office) easily in all major cities/resorts. If you can't find one, try a jeweller or the PTT (post office).

A lot of places won't accept travellers' cheques. Credit cards are widely accepted. Debit cards on UK banks can also be used in local ATMs.

Sterling, Euros and US Dollars can be used in most tourist resorts/major cities.

Be aware of the risks of theft (as everywhere). Good luck. I hope you enjoy your trip.

susan s

turkish lira but they also like the 10 pound note u can barter with these in icmeler or marmaris

heidi g

lira is the best as at the moment exchange rate is high but you will notice many things in shops show prices in dollars and euro i go to turkey often and always take lira

qwine2000

The best currency is called baxish.They accept anything and give nothing.Now there are millions ready to invade Europe,and
start making children there

john_markh

Camels, woman, dollars, pounds, euros... and NTL (New Turkish Lira), tho don't count on the last one.

Nick

The prefered currencys here are YTL New Turkish Lira then Euros and then Great British Pounds

Euros because they don't fluctuate as much.

paulrb8

american dollar

Biggles

Best bet is to carry travellers cheques, cashing them in when you need to.

Lady Jen

I've just come home from Oludeniz in Turkey. Had a fantastic time. We were advised to use sterling and Turkish Lira, however we just used lira the whole time we were there, as they seemed to prefer that. However, one restaurant we went to only accepted the Uk Sterling. Dont take Euros as there is a high rate to change over to Lira and i didnt see anywhere that actually accepted it.
Hope you have a good time.

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To use,Turkish Lira is the best but you can always get your US dolars , pounds and euros exchanged.

nathalie

they prefer Euro's and dollars...because they have a steady course...The turkish Lira (YTL) has a very bad course.

Almost everything is also priced in euro's,dollars and English pound.
If you pay with $,â‚¬ or Â£, try to ask for a 'Indirim' (= discount)

hasan05842

new turkish lira aka YTL

RSA

Turkish Lira.

Mariana A

The New Turkish Lira
per USD USD per

Turkish New Lira 1.5116 0.6615

Attached please find the website were you can actually see pictures of the Turkish currency
http://www.tourarium.com/general/currency.htm
Best of luck,
Mariana

matzger

Dirka's

Marinersfan

They will take anything ... Lira, Euro, Sterling, camels or women

Don't forget to put Â£10 in each passport as an "Arrival Visa" - apparently that's the way they operate there - and it must be a Â£10 note not a Â£20 for 2 or 2 x Â£5! It's something to do with the fact the GB Govt. made the Turks get a visa to come here!

pearl_682

Turkey doesn't have Euro cuz they didn't wanna be a part of it

nige_but_dim

I was told (by a friend who is a travel agent, rather than the travel agent we booked the holiday through!) to take sterling and change it there, as opposed to taking lira from here, as you will get a much better rate over there.

Apparently, they will take euros and dollars, but sterling is their favourite... that may be because so many Brits go there - you will find some restaurants have sterling prices! I will be able to answer you better when I get back in about 10 days time!

Of course, like most countries in the world, you will be able to use credit cards.

And don't forget your crisp tenner for your 'visa' at the airport!

Meagan M

Drumsticks :-)

MEL T

It's easier to get Euros and they take them there.

Finland Red Egypt White

For guys, I've heard it's your a**.

BlahDeBlah

Turkish Lira is the official currency but beware - they have just knocked 6 zeros off everything i.e. 1,000,000 lira is now 1 lira.

Both currencies are still in circulation so you might give 1 lira and get 900,000 in change!

Most tourist areas will change money for you so pounds, dollars or euro will be OK

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