Is there any hard local data to show that turks are actually buying BTC right now? it seems to me that everytime a crisis happens, folks talk a lot about a swing to BTC without necessarily showing supporting data.
The BTC price really spiked during the Cyprus crisis:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/ I'll take this as an opportunity to stand on my soapbox and preach: people don't know about Bitcoin because there is virtually no marketing for Bitcoin. If Coinbase would make even a 30-second ad showing why BTC is better, their business would increase and the value of BTC would rise. But they don't, and that is completely illogical to me. </rant>
So, tell all of your friends about Bitcoin (or Monero if they want untraceable and private transactions). The time may come when they need to move their money and they need to know in advance how to do it. The folks in Cyprus thought it would never happen, nor did the folks in Turkey, nor in Greece, nor in Venezuela, nor in ____.