Currency Sign
The current currency sign of Turkish lira was created by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey in 2012. The new sign was selected after a country-wide contest. The new symbol, created by Tülay Lale, is composed of the letter L shaped like a half anchor, and embedded double striped letter T angled at 20 degrees.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the new symbol on 1 March 2012. At its unveiling, Erdoğan explained the design as "the anchor shape hopes to convey that the currency is a 'safe harbor' while the upward facing lines represent its rising prestige".
In May 2012, the Unicode Technical Committee accepted the encoding of a new character U+20BA TURKISH LIRA SIGN for the currency sign, which was included in Unicode 6.2 released in September 2012.
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