They are scamming the people! They might be taking as much wealth as they can before the eventual collapse, and run away from the country.
Who is scamming who? The government is scamming citizens, is that what you meant? The government will try its best to protect its local currency, but probably it might be done incorrectly. If encouraging citizen to convert foreign currencies to Lira, that is manipulation and the outcome may later not be good.
Plus it’s “encouraging citizens through benefits” now, but I believe the people will start to understand that the Lira and the government could not be trusted.
Not only Lira, it is fiat generally, not that fiat can not be trusted, it can be trusted for spending purposes but not for savings. There was high inflation rate in Turkey and their fiat was greatly devalued, but Turkey is not the only country, even many other countries are like that. But generally, best not to keep fiat, the value of fiat is in what you used it to do, example, using it to buy bitcoin, gold or properties which are appreciative in nature.
We should not also be fooled by banks, encouraging customers to have a fixed account.