Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experi
The official currency of Turkey is the Turkish lira (TL), although the money was called the Turkish pound in Ottoman Turkey. There are 100 Kurush to every unit of Turkish currency (TL) but because inflation is so high in Turkey Kurush are rarely used.
The lira in use in Turkey today is not the same monetary unit that the Republic of Turkey originally adopted upon its formation in 1922. To combat high inflation, the lira was briefly switched out for the new lira (worth 1,000,000 lira) in 2003. However, the new was dropped in 2009 even though the different value was not. The Republic of Turkey presently manufactures 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 kurus coins.