0334 Turkey touristic postcard

Sent: 19.03.2020
Received 01.04.2020
Travel time: 12 days

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0263 Ataturk Turkey card and stamps

0248 April 23 celebration card from Turkey

Sent: 12.01.2018 (Okac = January)

Received 18.01.2018 

Travel time 6 days

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Nisan means April, and 23 April is National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey. 

0196 Largest post office Istanbul Turkey touristic card

Sent 19.12.2018

Received 07.01.2018

Travel time 18 days

Sender Elif, via postcrossing, teşekkür ederim, dear lady! 

Is my 1000 registered card on postcrossing!!!  :) 

Wiki: The Istanbul Grand Post Office, aka Istanbul Main Post Office, (Turkish: Büyük Postane) is an office building for postal services located at Sirkeci quarter of Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey. It was designed by architect Vedat Tek in First Turkish National architectural style and was constructed between 1905 and 1909. The four-story building houses a post office, the Sirkeci Post Office (Turkish: Sirkeci PTT Merkezi), office space for regional administration and also since 2000 the Istanbul Postal Museum (Turkish: PTT İstanbul Müzesi). It is Turkey's largest post office building.

Initially planned for use as the building of Ministry of Post and Telegraph (Ottoman Turkish: Posta ve Telgraf Nezareti‎) in the Ottoman Empire, its construction began in 1905, and was completed in 1909. An inscription in Ottoman Turkish alphabet on the tiled panel above the main entrance denotes "Ministry of Post and Telegraph". The building was renamed "New Post Office" (Turkish: Yeni Postane) in the 1930s, some time after the establishment of the Turkish Republic, and then "Grand Post Office" (Turkish: Büyük Postane).

In the early years of the Republic, between 1927 and 1936, the building temporarily housed Istanbul Radio. From 1958 on, it was used solely for postal and telegraphy services. Today, the ground floor is the Sirkeci Post Office, the first floor is occupied by its directorate while the second and third floors are offices for the regional post directorate of Istanbul's European side.

On May 6, 2000, part of the building was converted into Istanbul Postal Museum occupying four stories. The museum informs visitors about the history of communication and telecommunication services in the country that officially began on October 23, 1840. The museum consists of four sections for post, telegraph, telephone and postage stamps.

Post Office in Kemer, Turkey

Post Office in Kemer, Antalya, Turkey. Photo made by my friend Veerlem from Belgium, during her trip in December in Turkey. (Thank you!) 

Wiki:

Ptt, an abbreviation for Posta ve Telgraf Teşkilatı, is the national post and telegraph directorate of Turkey. Formerly, the organization was named Posta Telgraf Telefon. After the privatization of the telephone telecommunications service business, the directorate was renamed, keeping its acronym. It is headquartered in Ankara, and is known as TURKISH POST internationally

Official site: http://en.ptt.gov.tr/ptten#portal

0028 Turkey Flag of Country FOTW22

0028 Turkey Flag of Country FOTW22

Date of sending:   20 April 2017

Date of receipt: 02 June 2017

Travel time: 42 days

Sender Burak Inceyer (fb)

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