Pipe character on a Windows OS laptop w/ a Turkish keyboard

I had the same problem, the console doesn't let me use properly the alt gr button. The solution I found is to set the american keyboard in: Control panel / Regional and language options (in all control panel items) / Keyboard and languages tab / Change keyboards button / General tab / Add button. Here, you look for english, american english, you hit OK to quit everywhere. While you are in your terminal window, you hit alt+shift until the language toolbar on your taskbar changes to EN. Then you are on english keyboard. Press the button next to the left shift button, it will give . With shift + this button, you will get the magic |. Your keyboard may differ from mine, then try out other buttons! I think it may also be not far from backspace.