For generations, Turkish families have entrusted their savings not to banks but to gold hidden in the folds of domestic life — a quiet, inherited response to repeated economic upheaval. Now the Turkish government finds itself confronting a paradox of its own making: the very instability that drove citizens toward gold has produced a vast reservoir of private wealth that sits beyond the reach of the formal economy. Billions in metal lie still while the country strains for the capital needed to grow. The question at the center of this tension is not merely financial — it is a question of trust,