The definitive stamps with the theme of Fire Brigade

The definitive stamps with the theme of Fire Brigade

 

 

Official Stamps with the Theme of Our Museums - Gaziantep

Official Stamps with the theme of Our Museums - Gaziantep

 

 

 

 

Our Museums theme Official Postage Stamp

Our Museums theme Official Postage Stamp

Fifa Women's World Cup Canada 2015

Fifa Women's World Cup Canada 2015 Stamps and FDC

 

 

Through its women’s football development programmes, International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) aims to increase participation of women and girls in football, spark excitement for women’s football, create the best opportunities for women’s football to thrive and ensure that football continues to be the number-one female team sport.

Since 2011, FIFA has increase the scope of their programmes and put more emphasis on the importance of growing women’s football around the world.
The FIFA Women’s World Cup™, showcases the highest level of women’s football with the best countries in the world competing for the title of World Champion. The tournament is held every four years, with Canada set to host this year’s event in six designated Host Cities - Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Moncton. In this seventh edition of the tournament, that was first held in 1991 in China, 24 national teams will compete between 6 June and 5 July 2015.
To celebrate this tournament, four valuable commemorative stamps and a first day cover with “FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015TM” theme will be released on 06.06.2015 by PTT to provide specific support toward developing and increasing the participation of women and girls in football.

World Environment Day theme of Mushrooms

World Environment Day theme of Mushrooms S/S and FDC

 

 

The 5th June is announced as World Environment Day with the rule taken during the Environment Conference organized by United Nations in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm in 1972. In order to emphasize the importance given to the environment and increase the sensitiveness of the public, it has been given place to the subject of World Environment Day each year with a different aspect in the stamp emission programme. This year the mushrooms subject, one of the important part of ecosystem, has been processed.

The importance of thee mushrooms, partaking in the creatures world as different kingdom, is too much for the nature and the people. With the number of hundred thousand kinds, the mushrooms make contribution to recycling by separating the waste organic matter to building stones. The mushrooms have many important benefits such as to be used as nutritive value but also deviating the drug raw material from matter that are existed in their structures. However, the mushrooms are not only the beneficial creatures. As there are harmful species of mushrooms in terms of economic and health, there are also some harmful species having lethal effect for human life.

A first day cover and a commemorative block with the subject of “World Environment Day (Mushrooms)”, on which the visuals of the Auricularia auricula-judae, Coprinopsis picacea, Morchella deliciosa, Mucidula mucida mushrooms are situated, have been put into circulation by PTT on 05th June 2015.

 

Our Works Unesco's World Heritage List - Istanbul

OUR WORKS IN UNESCO'S WORLD HERITAGE LIST
(ISTANBUL)

 

 

İstanbul, known as the city with seven hills, has been one of the oldest cities bearing witness to the history. İstanbul, an intercontinental city, has a distinguished silhouette with priceless beauty at all hours of the day and night and every day of the year. This legendary city whose streets smell history, is one of the most special geographical areas in the world where the cross-cultural communication has still continued.
The historic areas of İstanbul, having universal value, were registered into UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1985. These historic areas consist of four regions:
1. Sultanahmet Urban Archaeological Conservation Area: This area consists of two region: One of them is Sur-i Sultani, located in the east side of Historical Peninsula and over Sarayburnu Hill where The Topkapı Palace is situated, and the other one is Sultanahmet. The East and South frontiers of this area are composed of the Marmara shore walls. The west frontier of this area starts from Sur-u Sultani in the north and reaches to the Marmara Walls in the south by including Small Hagia Sophia.
2. Suleymaniye Mosque and its Associated Conservation Area: This area is located in the surroundings of Süleymaniye Social Complex and Şehzade Mehmet Social Complex constituting a deterministic point for the city silhouette on a hill overlooking Haliç and it contains Vefa and Vezneciler districts.
3. Zeyrek Mosque and its Associated Conservation Area: This area is situated in a terrace overlooking Haliç and in the west side of Atatürk Boulevard and it consists of the Molla Zeyrek Mosque and the streets surrounding it.
4. İstanbul Land Walls Conservation Area: This area contains the walls and its immediate surroundings bordering the peninsula, on which the city was founded, in the west and extending to Haliç in the north by starting from the Sea of Marmara in the south.
A commemoration block with four stamps themed “Our Works in UNESCO’s World Heritage List (İstanbul)” and a first day cover - fdc were put into circulation by  PTT on 21 May 2015.

Europa Cept 2015 theme of Old Toys

EUROPA CEPT 2015 (OLD TOYS) Stamps and FDC

 

 

 The Toy, the witness of its age in the broadest sense, represents the economic-social-cultural characteristics of its own period both as a simple public work of art and developed manufactured product.
Having an important place on the intellectual, emotional, pyhsical and social development of kids, the toy is a historical and cultural product which helps kids to realize their own powers and to adapt themselves to the world of adults. Even if the alteration of the understanding for children and childhood have caused in the diversification of the toys within the hictorical process, the toy has preserved its basic function which consists of subjecting the children to the world and preparing them for life. In this context, it is observed that there are a lot of commonalities rather than discrepancies among the toys of different ages, cultures and nations.
Two valuable commemorative stamp with the subject of Europa 2015 (Old Toys) by using the visuals of tumbrel with hammers, hand-crafted local baby and toy cradles which are existed in the collection of Ankara University Toy Museum and photographed by Doğanay Çevik, were put into circulation by PTT on 9 May 2015.

Valuable Stones

VALUABLE STONES Stamp and FDC

 

 

The civilization started with stones. The first devices were sharpened by banging two stones together and the fires were ignited by the sparkle diffusing from the stones. The fire cooked the mud and then it became ceramic; it smelted the ore and then the mineral was found. Sentiments, fears and beliefs were expressed by the stones and at first the history was written in stones. The colorful and sparkling stones gained different meanings with their various features. Valuable and semi-precious stones have been used as the symbols of beauty, wealthiness and status since prehistoric ages.
A commemorative stamp with the subject of ‘valuable stones’, on which the visuals of lüle taşı (Sepiolit) and Oltu taşı (Jet Stones) that have an important place in our country are situated and a first day cover were put into circulation by PTT on 29 April 2015.
LÜLE TAŞI: The lüle taşı is a white clay mineral which is known as ‘sepiolit’ in the science world. The high quality of processable sepiolit is just extracted from Eskişehir all over the world. It has been used in the production of tobacco pipe and knickknackery as an art and decoration material.
OLTU TAŞI: The Oltu taşı is generally a semi-precious black stone which has mostly a carbon constituent. This stone, which is extracted from the territories of Oltu, the county of Erzurum, is called with the name of ‘Oltu’ throughout the world. It is used for the production of trappings, jewellery and especially beads.

95th Year of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

95th Year of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Stamp and FDC

 

 

Peace Summit

PEACE SUMMIT

 

 

 

The Ottoman Empire was one of the six major belligerent Powers during the whole duration of the First World War, the salient event of the past century which ushered in modern times. The Ottoman Empire entered the Great War on 29 October 1914 and surrendered exactly four years later on 30 October 1918, only ten days before Germany did so. The First World War was forced upon Turkey. The Entente Powers rejected Turkey’s wish to side with them and did not offer any meaningful guarantees for the Empire’s territorial integrity.
The Ottoman Empire’s performance during the Great War was heroic and for both its allies and foes, surprising, to say the least. It was not an industrialized Power and not one of those rich empires of the time with seemingly endless resources. But it had the most diversified fronts running in all four directions. It fought in Europe, in Gallipoli, Galicia and the Caucasus and in Palestine, Suez and Mesopotamia. The Great War, which the Empire entered into for self-defense, brought calamity to the peoples who lived in the fold of the Ottomans, and it robbed the country of its best and the brightest. Only in Gallipoli, Turkey lost nearly 40.000 high school and university graduates. Then the National War of Liberation ensued under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, leading to the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey on 29 October, 1923. Turkey, understands the unique role it can play in instilling the conditions of lasting peace, and prosperity in its wider region, and earnestly tries to live up to this promise.
In a broader sense the First World War takes its place in the series of those great events which shaped the flow of history and defined Turkey’s European character and credentials, hence Turkey’s European vocation and its membership negotiations with the European Union.
Our Company issued two commemorative stamp blocs in recognition of the “Peace Summit” which was held in Istanbul on 23 April 2015 with the purpose of sending a peace message to the whole world on basis of the friendly relations established by Turkey with the former belligerent countries of the Battle of Çanakkale remembered as the last “Gentlemen’s War” in history as well as drawing attention to the difficulties faced all across the world today.
The commemorative stamps on the theme “Peace Summit” have a value of 1.25 and 2.50 Turkish Liras. The stamp portfolio includes the aforementioned commemorative stamps, a commemoration block without perforation with serial number from 0001 to 5000 valuing 2.50 Turkish Liras, a commemoration block with perforation valuing 4 Turkish Liras, as well as a first day cover. The portfolio has been issued as of 23 April 2015.