Kusadasi in Turkey

Kusadasi, Turkey

This is postmarked in 2009, but there is no stamp.

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Kuşadası is a resort town on Turkey's Aegean coast. The name comes from 'kuş' (bird) and 'ada' (island).

Anatolia, Turkey: Village Life, Bread Making

Village Life in Anatolia
Turkiye (Turkey)

The sender writes that these are woman making bread in the traditional way and that it is delicious.

This is postmarked in 2013 with a Turkey stamp for 1,10.

Turkey (Turkiye) stamp 2013

Map, 13. Istanbul Bienali 1,10

13th Istanbul Biennial 

Map of Unesco and Tentative Unesco sites in Turkey

Turkiye (Turkey)

The sender writes that this is a map postcard showing the UNESCO and tentative UNESCO places in Turkey.

In the bottom right corner is a picture of men smoking hookah pipes.

postmarked in 2013 with two great Turkiye stamps

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There are 11 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List in Turkey:

Cultural
Archaeological Site of Troy (1998)
City of Safranbolu (1994)
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği (1985)
Hattusha: the Hittite Capital (1986)
Historic Areas of Istanbul (1985)
Nemrut Dağ (1987)
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük (2012)
Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex (2011)
Xanthos-Letoon (1988)

Mixed
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (1985)
Hierapolis-Pamukkale (1988)

 

Turkey stamps 2013

World Environment Day

Environmental Pollution 1,10

Happy New Year from Turkey!

Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun (Happy New Year)

postmarked in 2011 with a stamp from Turkey

Turkey - Stamp 1998
Feza Gursey (1921-1992)
Posta T

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Feza Gürsey was a Turkish mathematician and physicist.

Erzurm, Turkey

Erzurum, Turkey
Cifte Minare - Ataturk Heykel
Uc Kumbetler - Istasyon Caddesı

loose translation:
Erzurum, Turkey
Çifte Minareli Medrese - Ataturk Sculpture
Three Tombs - Station Street

postmarked in 1984 with a Turkey 50 lira stamp

Turkey (Turkiye Cumhuriyeti) stamp 1983

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 50 Lira

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk  (1881 - 1938) was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, 

revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. 

I'm Here - World Maps

I wonder how many other cards are there like this out there?????

Florida

I'm here
Ich bin hier
Je suis ici
Estoy aui

This postcard is unused and was bought in 2010.
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I'm here - Turkiye (Turkey)
This one is postmarked in 2007.

Turkey - Pamukkale

Turkiye (Turkey)

1. Pamukkale
2. Ishak Pasa Mosque - Agri
3. Marmaris
4. Celsus Library - Ephesus

postmarked in 2009 from Malaysia

stamp on the left:
Tikus ambang bulan - Echinosorex gymnurus - (Moon Rat)

stamp on the right:
Teledu - Mydaus javanensis - (Indonesian Stink Badger)

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1. Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in south-western Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing water. It is located in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.

Tourism is and has been a major industry. People have bathed in its pools for thousands of years. It has been badly damaged in some areas, and so there are now efforts to restore the springs.

Karagoz and Hacivat, puppets from Turkey

This is a card that someone glued a plain piece of paper onto the back and made it a postcard. They wrote that these two are Haragoz and Hacivat an that they became a role model for public knowledge to be formed.

postmarked in 2009 with a machine stamp from Turkey

not on the card, but some information:

Karagöz (meaning blackeye in Turkish) and Hacivat (also written Hacivad) are the lead characters of the traditional Turkish shadow play, popularized during the Ottoman period. The central theme of the plays are the contrasting interaction between the two main characters: Karagöz represents the illiterate but straightforward public, whereas Hacivat belongs to the educated class, speaking Ottoman Turkish and using a poetical and literary language. Karagöz's native wit always gets the better of Hacivat's learning (but his money-making ventures always fail)

Rock Tombs in Antalya, Turkey

Turkiye (Turkey)
Myra
Antalya-Turkiye

the sender writes, 'These rock tombs are in Myra, in Antalya, which are built in Lycia time.'

postmarked in 2008 with a Turkiey Cumhuriyet! stamp


Demre (Myra) Antalya : Demre was one of the most important cities of the Lycian civilisation. Demre was a place of settlement from the 5th century BC. Rock tombs, theatres and the Church of St. Nicholas (said to be the original Santa Claus) are the most interesting sites in the town today.

Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. It is the capital city of Antalya Province.
It is unknown when the site of the future city was first inhabited. Excavations in 2008 in the Doğu Garajı district of Antalya have uncovered remains dating to the third century, B.C, suggesting that the city was founded earlier. Later Antalya became part of the Roman Republic in 133 BC when King Attalos III of Pergamum willed his kingdom to Rome at his death and the city grew and prospered in the Ancient Roman period. Christianity started to spread in the region after 2nd century. Antalya was visited by Paul of Tarsus, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 14:25-26), (wherein Antalya is referred to as Attalia). St. Paul and St. Barnabas went to Antalya and sailed from there to Antioch after preaching in Pisidia and Pamphylia.

Turkey, Map and Rugs

Turkish Carpets with map of Turkiye (Turkey)

I love this postcard!!

postmarked with machine stamp from Turkiye in 2007