New Turkish Banknotes To Be In Use As Of January 1 Will Have Ataturk Portraits

ANKARA - New Turkish banknotes to be in use as of January 1, 2009 will have Ataturk portraits on one side, said Durmus Yilmaz, Turkish Central Bank Governor, on Friday.
Yilmaz introduced the new Turkish banknotes and coins at a meeting held at the Central Bank Administration Center and also attended by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday.
While each banknote will have a portrait of Ataturk, the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, on one side, there will be portraits of other prominent Turks on the other sides of the banknotes as listed below:

-5 TL banknote: Prof. Dr. Aydin Sayili
-10 TL banknote: Prof. Dr. Cahit Arf
-20 TL banknote: Architect Kemaleddin
-50 TL banknote: Ms. Fatma Aliye
-100 TL banknote: Itri
-200 TL banknote: Yunus Emre

Aydin Sayili (1913-1993) was a historian of science who studied under George Sarton at Harvard. His career was aided by chance meeting with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, whom he impressed enough to receive a state-supported scholarship to attend graduate school at Harvard.
Cahit Arf (1910-1997) was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in topology, the Hasse-Arf theorem in ramification theory, and Arf rings.
Architect Kemaleddin (1870-1927) was a prominent Turkish architect. He is a graudate of civil engineering and studied extensively in Germany. He repaired many mosques. He was chosen as a member to the British Royal Architects Institute. He constructed the Bostanci, Bebek, Yesilkoy and Kutlutepe mosques.
Ms. Fatma Aliye (1862-1939) was the first female novelist in Turkish literature and Islamic geography.
Itri (1630 or 1640-1712) is a well known Turkish composer.
Yunus Emre (1238?-1320?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present.
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