TURKEY – Cover from Bursa, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Cover with stamps from the ‘150^th Anniversary of the Turkish Stamp‘ stamp issue, posted on February 27, 2013.

(A very special thanks to my best friend Baris Yakar)

Souvenir sheet

TURKEY – Cover from Bursa, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Cover with stamps from the 2009 ‘The Sultan’s Boats’ stamps issue posted on December, 17 2011.
(A very special thanks to my friend Baris Yakar)

The set of stamps shows us the Sultan’s boat an imperial caique used by the Sultan and his family for local travel.
The name used is SALTANAT KAYIGI for this craft.
Each Sultan had one built for his own use, and the last was used till World War I.
The craft is heavily ornamented along the sides and at the stern and bow.
Bow elongated and horizontal or upturned and recurved.

Commonly she carried a figurehead of a golden bird, this craft was known as a bird caique.
An ornate pavilion at the stern provided shelter for the Sultan his family and guests.
She was double banked and rowed by 26 men, steered by a rudder with a tiller.
The early boats were also equipped with double sails.
Length between 30 and 32 meter, beam and depth between 2.5 and 3 meter.

The Sultan’s boats were used by the Sultan on the Bosporus and Golden Horn.
But many of that type were used as ferries across the Bosporus and Golden Horn by local boatmen, only she were smaller and less decorated as the boat from the Sultan.
The Sultan’s boats were always the largest craft of that time.

TURKEY – Postcard from Istambul, Turkey to Braga, Portugal.

Postcard sent on June, 3 2011.

(Special thanks to my friend Volodymyr Sulyma from Ukraine)

TURKEY – Cover sent from Bursa, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Cover commemorative stamp of 110Kurus from the ‘World Environmental Day’ stamps issue miniature sheet, posted on December, 13 2010.
(Special thanks to my friend Baris Yakar)

Date of Issue: 05-06-2010
Type: Commemorative
Denomination: 110 Kurus
No. of Stamp in Set: 4 in miniature sheet
Size:
Perforation:
Color: Multicolor
Process of Printing: offset
Protection of the stamp:
Printer:
Designer:

TURKEY - Postcard from Alanya, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Postcard posted on October, 28 2010.
(A very special thanks to my friend Sini)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanya

TURKEY – Cover from Bursa, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Cover with special postmark to mark the first flight of the route Bursa-Munich on the Lufthansa LH3257 Airbus A319 aircraft, over stamps of the 2009’s Turkey-Portugal joint issue, posted on August, 2 2010.
(Many thanks to my friend Baris Yakar)

TURKEY – Cover from Pasaport - Izmir, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Cover and First Day Cover posted on August, 19 2010.
(A very special thanks to my friend Ahmet Demir)

TURKEY - Cover from Ízmír, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Cover with Turkish EUROPA 2009 stamps posted on May, 30 2010.
(Special thanks to my friend Bulent Oktem)

EUROPA 2009 - Astronomy stamps issue: 2 motives, one value at 80 Kurus¸ (right stamp) features the Cacabey Astronomy Medresse (located in the center of Kõrsehir and was built in H. 671 / C.1272-1273) set against an image of a galaxy; while the second stamp, valued at 1 Lira (left stamp) depicts famous astronomer Ali Kus¸çu (1403-1474) working on a document and surrounded by images that include Earth, the Moon...

Sent two days ago on 8 of July 2010

Registered Covers and Postcards with stamps to friends in Algeria, China, Croatia, Finland, Republic of Ireland, Turkey and Ukraine

TURKEY - Cover from Izmir, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

Cover posted on May, 17 2010.
(Special thanks to my friend Ahmet Demir)