Turks often keep gold as a hedge against inflation. Billions of dollars worth of gold is held in Turkish households outside the banking system.
The government aims to convince citizens to put that gold into the mainstream financial system to help the economy.
Reporting by Hadeel Al-Shalchi for NPR.
Source: npr.org
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