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Offline dycedon

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Turkish Lira in UK
« on: May 13, 2014, 12:55:47 PM »
My mate just phoned me from town , he went in to change some money into Turkish Lira, the girl said that they had no Lira and Turkey were not releasing any, the shop is in Aberdeen, Ramsays Travel travel, she was going to take it off of the money exchange board, very strange, can anyone enlighten me on this please.



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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2014, 13:34:46 PM »
This has been flagged up on T.A. for a week  or so now.  Travel FX and a lot of the online agencies have no lira. It has been removed from their websites and it has been running out in all the exchange shops.  It seems the Turkish Government are withholding lira from going out of Turkey.   The exchange rate on the Dovis also seems to be dropping.  It is now down to 3.48.
http://m.doviz.com
Amazing to think we got 3.81 in Debenhams a few months ago.

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2014, 14:24:04 PM »
If it is any use to you I have 67 TL left over from last year and can sell it on to you at cost price (= 2.9/£).

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2014, 15:36:42 PM »
I bought Turkish Lira yesterday at Travelex in Cambridge at 3.45, most of the other places had Turkish lira on their boards, but the rate was bad.  Wont buy any more now until we get over at the end of the month, its always a better rate in Turkey than in the UK.  Travelex did say that they had not had any new supplies of TL they were selling on the lira that had been returned to them.

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2014, 16:27:56 PM »
It's only 3.44 in the change shops in fethiye today.

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2014, 16:43:50 PM »
very interesting thanks for that  :)

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2014, 18:14:19 PM »
Colwyn
Thanks for the offer of the 67tl, if you can drop it off in Aberdeen I would be most grateful, I will cover the cost of your flight :)

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2014, 18:23:13 PM »
I was in Wrexham Post Office today and asked if they had any TL in stock. They had "at least 10,000TL in the safe and could get more in 24 hours if needed".

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2014, 21:14:28 PM »
I spoke to Post Office supply chain today and asked if there were any difficulties obtaining Turkish Lira.  They were totally unaware of any problems.

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Re: Turkish Lira in UK
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2014, 22:24:42 PM »
Copied this from Martin Lewis's website
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Anyone going to turkey soon you might have trouble getting Lira

i work for travelex and we cannot order it and are running out in the bureaus , we also supply sainsburys / tesco / asda / M&S so they might be out of stock and not be able to order

we have been advised that its a problem with the turkish govenment that is restricting the supply of currency
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