Postal service among the Ottomans

Niki GAMM ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News

The first Ottoman postal service was established in the sixteenth century for the government’s use. Over the course of a three-hundred-year period it developed into a modern postal system under the influence of European-inspired systems

The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, 1913.

Last month the Turkish PTT (Posta Telefon Telegraf) opened the doors of its postage stamp museum in Ankara and showed off some of the many “treasures” that it had been storing in its depots for 173 years. The permanent exhibition has stamps from the earliest period, stamp designs, equipment and
even short films.

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