10 Lira

Turkey's in-house printing operation, the Banknot Matbaası, had been producing notes since 1955, and by the early 1980s the facility was printing into a deteriorating monetary environment. Inflation through the late 1970s and early 1980s was severe enough that the 10 Lira denomination — still circulating as recently as the late 1970s as a meaningful unit — had become nearly worthless in everyday transactions by the time this issue was struck.

The 1982 series relied solely on a watermark for security. For a denomination already being eroded into irrelevance by triple-digit annual inflation rates, more sophisticated counterfeit deterrence was hardly a priority.