The Treasury and the Mint administrators returned from Bordeaux trip where they went for the second time due to the similarity problem. It was informed that Treasury Deputy Undersecretariat Nevzat Barhan and Mint General Manager Ahmet Buyukkaymaz took the samples of 50 cents and 1 Turkish Lira, which caused a problem, with them when they were going to French Mint Monnaine de Paris which the EU authorized in respect of Euro.
At Monnaine de Paris where the most sensitive coin measures of the Europe are carried out, 50 cents and 1 Turkish Lira were passed through new tests and tried at the automats as well. It was informed that the fact tat 50 cents and 1 Turkish Lira did not have the magnet peculiarity, which is the most obvious difference from 2 Euros and 1 Euro, gave positive result at the tests in favour of the Turkish coin.
However, it was reported that these results did not mean that the problem was removed, yet, but a written final report was awaited from the EU.
