His spokesman and senior adviser, Kevin Kellems, gave him what he had, about seventeen dollars in Turkish lira.
The jury heard that suitcases of Turkish lira were taken from his mother's home and ferried to banks.
The Turkish lira is slipping against the dollar, GDP is expected to shrink this year and unemployment is rising.
Yet his female junior barrister had been able to wheel around a suitcase in court containing 2bn Turkish lira.
The value of the Turkish lira took a pounding, as did the main index of the Istanbul stock exchange.
So, on February 22nd, the government announced it would allow the Turkish lira to float freely in other words, to devalue.
Curiously the crunch has not shaken faith in two currencies favoured by yield-hungry investors: the Brazilian real and Turkish lira.
Many of the emerging currencies are strong, with the Turkish lira and Mexican peso up 6.6% versus the dollar last month.
Iran sells natural gas to Turkey and receives payment in Turkish lira, which are then used to purchase gold bars in Turkey.
Served in a traditional Turkish tulip glass, the smoky flavoured black tea comes from an old kettle and costs as little as 1 Turkish Lira.
Turkey provided its commercial banks the option of meeting a portion of their Turkish lira reserve requirements with alternatives, said Erica Rannestad, commodity analyst with CPM Group.
The Turkish lira has depreciated against the dollar by 58% in less than a year while the Argentine peso has remained fixed at parity to the dollar.
According to speculation in local media, Mr Fischer is planning to discuss ways of limiting the fluctuation of the Turkish lira.play down the significance of the talks.
The Australian dollar, the New Zealand dollar, the Brazilian real and the Turkish lira were all marked down during the market squalls, particularly against a resurgent yen.
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Having sought U.S. dollar exposure last year, we would expect to build our exposure to currencies like the Brazilian real, Mexican peso and Turkish lira in 2013.
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The paradoxical fact is that weak currencies (like the Italian lira, in the pre-euro era, and the Turkish lira) often outperform stronger currencies (like the deutsche mark and the U.S. dollar).
The value of the Turkish lira fell by nearly half against the dollar, a bevy of banks went under, and only a much bigger intervention by the Fund prevented wholesale meltdown.
The Turkish lira has slipped by more than 80% against the dollar, inflation has resumed its upward spiral, and tens of thousands of Turks have lost their jobs, including some 3, 000 media people.
As Tim Lee of pi Economics points out, the Turkish lira is as strong against the euro as it was in 2002, even though its current-account deficit is running at around 7% of economic output and its inflation rate has been significantly higher than that of the euro zone over the past five years.
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