Para (currency) Para (currency) The para (Cyrillic: пара, from Turkish "para", from Persian "pārah", "piece" ) was a former currency of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian dinar. As a former Ottoman and Turkish currency, it was 1/40 of a "kuruş", which was, in turn, 1/100 of a Turkish lira. It was also earlier 3 "akçe" The modern Turkish lira is only divided into "kuruş". In Serbia, the "para" has been the subunit of the dinar since the 19th century. The Montenegrin perper was subdivided into 100 "pare" during
Bahá'í Faith in Turkey the government officially. Despite this, members do not face significant persecution due to the separation of religion and state in Turkey, and there are estimated to be 10,000 to 20,000 Bahá'ís and around one hundred Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assemblies in Turkey. Many of the important geographic areas of the early period of the Bahá'í Faith were historically controlled by the Ottoman Empire, from which Turkey came about after the Empire's dissolution in the 1920s. The first interaction between the history of the religion and what is present-day Turkey occurred when Mullá 'Alíy-i-Bastámí, who was a Bábi—the immediate predecessor religion associated