Well, it looks like tourists in Turkey already confuse the symbol with the euro...
Because both currencies are accepted there in many places (this is not true in the reverse situation : you'll hardly find places in the eurozone where Turkish liras are accepted and even shown on any price list or price indicator of shops in the eurozone, except in a change office of a bank, which will display the Turkish flag and/or the currency code TRY along with the country name, avoiding the currency name "lira" itself which would be confusive). So shops need to add "TL" before the new symbol when displaying prices !!! In other words, they did not even need the symbol except with its strict design for the banknotes and coins (where the full name of the currency is also displayed...), but the Turkish law mat require they display the symbol. This demonstrate that the "new" TL symbol already matches the designs already used and recognized for the euro symbol. And yes it will be challenging for font designers to avoid mixing the Turkish Lira with the existing creative designs they used for the euro symbol (and with the handwritten designs which are now common as well)...
