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There are hundreds of articles and scientific papers in our Academy Digital Archive started by the Kaan Ertem (R.I.P.). Hakan Yılmaz has made great additions to this archive. We will publish all of these in time. First of all, we started to upload the articles in TFDF publications, Exhibition Catalogs, Academy Annuals/Newsletters and TFDF affiliated association publications. In addition, many philatelists support us. Cüneyt Gemicioğlu has seen fit to let us use many articles he published on different sites. Our member Tobias Zywietz has approved us to access all issues of the Middle East Philatelic Bulletin (MEPB), which he started publishing in 2015 and edited, as PDF. He also sent us a list of all the articles on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire in the bulletin. Turgay Artam, also a member of the Federation, approved us to use the articles from the New Collection Magazine he started to publish in the seventies. Former Federation President Mahmut Emirmahmutoğlu had previously approved the sharing of all the articles in the Stamp Culture magazine he started to publish in the eighties. Thanks to all of them.

We will share articles and academic theses in PTT publications upon approval. We have also started to upload copyright-free articles published in the early twentieth century. Since the beginning of 2025, we have started to have members from abroad. Many contributions will also come from these members. We select and upload articles on detailed research, narrow topics, events and memories related to our philately, people and projects. In time, we will organize them according to topics.

While making the site, we wrote to our dear friend and member Christos Gikas, the editor of the newsletter, for approval to share the Balkanfila News bulletins, in his reply; “It would be an honor for us to have the BF Newsletter on our website. Also, the BF Newsletter is a joint work of all Member Federations, so no permission is required”. This view also applies to the Academy website. The site is designed as a common platform for philately of the Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Balkans and Turkey. It is not only for the members of the Academy, but also for academics, philatelists and enthusiasts working in this field.

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Akan, Fırat Balkan Postal Rates of Turkey, Ankara: Akademi Yıllığı, 2021, p3-15.
Akan, Mehmet Postal History of the Ankara Government: Ankara Government Issues Stamps.
Akan, Mehmet Unknown Moughamian Freres (Moughamian Brothers) Postcard, Ankara: Akademi Yıllığı, 2021, p17-25.
Akan, Mehmet What is Rarity in Philately?
Akan, Mehmet The Effect of the Alphabet Revolution on Postal Materials: Ankara First Type Stamps with Latin Alphabet, Ankara: Ankara National Stamp Exhibition Catalog, 2017.
Akan, Mehmet Payas Post, Postal War, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2017, p13-31.
Akan, Mehmet and Jeff Ertugrul The North Star Brigade. London: OPAL, 1985 No. 159.
Akar, Selçuk Examples of Unprinted Stamps, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2021, p27-30.
Akar, Selçuk Space Post, Ankara: TFA E Bulletin April-May 2021, issue 2, p15-16.
Akçaoğlu, Hakan Karabaşname-i İstanbul, Tombak, 1997 sayı 16, p22-32.
Akduman, Kayhan From the Ankara Government to the Turkish Republic.
Arısoy, Olcay Sandjack d'Alexandrette and Hatay State Postal History Stamps, Ankara: Akademi Yıllığı, 2017, p52-65.
Çelebi, Murat İbrahim Wars with the Ottoman Empire in Russian Philately, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2021, p31-46.
Çırağan, Behçet Ottoman Meteorology Organization in World War I, Ankara: Yeni Koleksiyon Magazine, January 1980 issue: 8, p4-5.
Çırağan, Behçet The First Leaves of Turkish Philately, Ankara: Yeni Koleksiyon Magazine, Issue: 28-30, February 1982, p20-24.
Çilingiroğlu, Sarkis Ottoman Field Post in the First World War (15th Army Corps), Türk Pulculuğu, p61-62.
Eğilli, Enis Diyarbekir Postcars (Amid-Diyarbekir), Türk Pulculuğu, p96-101.
Ertem, Kaan This Stamp is Very Favorable. Use it to the Peak. Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2017, p67-76.
Galinos, Alexandre Common Interest Postal Items between Turkey and Greece, ISTANBUL: Istanbul 2010 Exhibition Catalog, p.44-45.
Galinos, Alexandre Airmail from Constantinople to Bucharest (July-October 1919)
Gemicioğlu, Cüneyt 1929 London Edition First Postage Stamps with New Letters.
Gemicioğlu, Cüneyt A Lifelong Philatelist: İsmail Hakkı Tevfik Okday.
Göktaş, Uğur District Bazaars, Türk Pulculuğu, p90-93.
Güzhan, Saadettin Turkish Railways Postal History: Mobile Postmarks, Ankara: Academy Yıllığı, 2017, p83-99.
Güzhan, Saadettin Railway Postal History: Mersin-Tarsus-Adana Railway Line, Türk Pulculuğu, p64-70.
Haskiya, Albert (Albert FRIEDMANN trans.) German Levant Post Offices in Turkey, Türk Pulculuğu.
İhsan, Mustafa (Translated by Osman Levend SERAL, Edited by Hakan YILMAZ) Postal Guide
Karakaş, Ünal An Attempt to Help Find the Truth in the 1891-1892 Matbua -IMPRIME- Stamps, Stamp Culture, Year: 1, Issue: 4, July 15, 1989.
Kazancı, Necati Mechanical Postmarks, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2021, p.63-80.
Kuyaş, Salih Turkish Caucasian Army Post, Ankara: Yeni Koleksiyon Magazine, June-September 1979, issue: 5, p4-6.
Özeltürkay, Mahir Cilicia Stamps, Ankara: 2011 Konya National Stamp Exhibition Catalog, 2011.
Pabuççuoğlu, M. Bülent Postal Centers Where Turkish Grand National Assembly Ankara Government Stamps Are Used. Türk Pulculuğu, p26-41.
Peçi, Bajram The Post Offices in Albanian Cities During the Ottoman Empire, FEPA News No 37, July 2020, p64-66
Pulhan, Ali Nusret A Letter of Monsieur Beraha, Istanbul: Pul Meşheri , 1931 issue 2, p29.
Sandalcı, Mert M. Ziya AĞAOĞULLARI's Collection of Ottoman Shop Cards, Istanbul: Türk Pulculuğu.
Seral, Osman Levend Imperial Maritime Messengers (Méssageries Imperiales Maritimes), Ankara: Akademi Yıllığı, 2021, p81-116.
Seral, Osman Levend Pictographs in Ottoman Postal Seal, Istanbul: Istanbul 2015 Exhibition Catalog, PTT General Directorate, p.25-43, December 2015.
Stassinopoulos, George I. Identification Tool for Cancellations of the Ottoman Empire.
Tanyer, Turan A Philatelic Club in Ankara and Ertuğrul Şevket's Interview, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2017, p147-152.
Tanyer, Turan Building Stamps, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2017, p133-145.
Tunacı, Atadan British Railway Company Cancellations of the Ottoman Empire in Western Anatolia.
Tunacı, Atadan Postal History of the Ottoman Railways, The First Entry of Imperialism into the Ottoman Empire.
Tunacı, Atadan History of British Railway Companies in Asia Minor; First Entrance of Imperialism to Ottoman Empire with Postal History of OTTOMAN RAILWAY COMPANY and SYMRNE-KASABA RAILWAY COMPANY.
Tunacı, Atadan From Mitrovitza to Medina: Ottoman Railway Postal History with first entrance of Imperialism to Ottoman Empire. Istanbul: 2015 Alliance of Civilizations International Stamp Exhibition, Catalog p17-24.
Turgut, Turhan Taxe Stamps Mistaken for Taxe Stamps!, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2021, p125-128.
Turgut, Turhan The Establishment and Functioning of the Ottoman Army Field Post in World War I. Toplumsal Tarih Dergisi, January 2014.
Turgut, Turhan Ottoman Postal Censorship in World War I.
Turgut, Turhan Propaganda through Post in World War I.
Turgut, Turhan Outlines of the Ottoman Postal System.
Turner, T. Guy, Turner, R. Sydney The First Issue of Turkey, 1863. Some Further Notes. Secret Marks. Forgeries. London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1913.
Utku, Emre Poste Restante, Ankara: Academy Yearbook, 2021.
Yazgan, Serdar Four Generations of Ayvalık, Istanbul: Efemera Dergisi, May 2019, no 11, p17-27.
Yurdakul, Doğan 1875 Type IV Postage Stamps with Crescent and Star, Turkish Postage, p8-11.

Articles on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire in The Middle East Philatelic Bulletin (MEPB):

Adjemian, Léon T. A few Words about the Hand-Stamps of Turkey
Adjemian, Léon T. The Postal Hand-Stamps of Turkey before the Existence of Postage Stamps
Arlı, Kamil Fatih Constantinople & Danube Line Of Steamers / T.B. Morton & Co.
Allen Jr., Rod RFI: 1937 Atatürk Block (Souvenir Sheet)
Areksoussi, Chaker Covers from the Sanjak of Alexandretta during the Crisis of 1938/1939
Berkil, Hakan New Ottoman T.P.O. Cancel Discovered: Smyrna–Dinar (İzmir–Geyikli)
Berkil, Hakan The Earliest Ottoman Reply Coupon from Smyrna 1915
Berkil, Hakan Turkey 1897 Overprint Error “Cniq” on Cover
Birken, Andreas Post for Baron Krobatin
Braun, Karl Postal Conditions in Turkey (1875)
Bruining, Folkert An Interesting Prediction : New Postmark Discoveries from the Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa–Dersaʿadet (Svilengrad–İstanbul) Railway (II)
Bruining, Folkert Bon Samaritain (Khan al-Hathrur) (IV)
Bruining, Folkert Bon Samaritain (Khan al-Hathrur) Updated
Bruining, Folkert Collecting Educates, that’s for sure! Slate Mining in Veniziani-Gradsko (North Macedonia)
Bruining, Folkert How to Sell a Parable: The Ottoman Post Office Bon Samaritain (Khan al-Hathrur)
Bruining, Folkert Kouléli Bourgas of all Places …
Bruining, Folkert Railway Mail Service in Ottoman Europe (IV) : Some Interesting Additions
Bruining, Folkert Railway Mail Services in Ottoman Europe (III) : Railway Stations after the Balkan Wars and First World War
Bruining, Folkert Request for Information: Ottoman Railway Station Postmarks
Bruining, Folkert Request for Information: Pogon Ambulant Post Office – A Rural Postal Service in Ottoman Times?
Buscke, Bernd-Dieter International Reply Coupons of Turkey: Greek Occupation of the Island of Lesbos with Mytilene 1912
Daregobian, Aram The Gülnihal: A Turkish Hospital Ship
Döderlein, Leonhard The Austrian Post Office in Çeşme (Tscheschmé)
Elsner, Wolfgang Levantine Discord: The Rejection of the First Stamps of Hatay by Syria and Lebanon
Feuser, Peter B. The Air Defence School (FLAK-Schule) at San Stefano (Yeşilköy)
Fredebold, Volker Constantinople State Printing Office: Postal Newspaper Wrappers for the Postage-Free Dispatch of the Official Newspaper Takvīm-i Vakāyi
Fredebold, Volker İstanbul Postmen’s Delivery Cachets 1913–1929
Fredebold, Volker The Dolmabahçe Imperial Palace Post Office: Saray-ı Hümayun – Palais Impérial
Garton, John P. Constantinople City Post 1869–1882 and Liannos Private Post 1865–1867
Gerzabek, Hubert Gems from the Adolf Passer Collection (I)
Gerzabek, Hubert Gems from the Adolf Passer Collection (II): The Kilis-Provisionals 1921
Gerzabek, Hubert Gems of Ottoman Maritime Mail
Gerzabek, Hubert Local Mail in İstanbul (I): Lianos & Cie.
Gerzabek, Hubert Ottoman Military Mail & Censorship in WWI
Gerzabek, Hubert Ottoman Officers’ Field Post Stamps and Military and Field Post Postmarks
Gerzabek, Hubert Turkey 1917: Ox Head Overprints on Cover
Giray, Kemal Baghdad Provisionals Revisited
Glietsch, Jürgen The Provisional Postmark of the Italian Military Post Office in Smyrna in 1922
Graf, Otto A Thessaly Cover with Surprises
Graf, Otto Emergency Post Cards of Turkey
Graf, Otto On the Use of Turkey’s 1916 Leander’s Tower Postal Card
Graf, Otto Some Remarks about the Ay Yıldız Issue
Graf, Otto The Handling of International Mail by Turkish Censors During World War I (I)
Graf, Otto The Palekura Opium Plantation
Graf, Otto The Turkish Occupation of Thessaly 1897/98: Some Covers and their Background
Graf, Otto Turkey’s Red Crescent Stamps: Regulations Governing their Usage
Graf, Otto Unknown Ottoman Censor Marks: Deurt-Yol and Damascus
Gröger, Hans-Dieter Postage Due Covers from the Turkish-Bulgarian Postal War of 1886 to 1888
Gröger, Hans-Dieter Specialities of Ottoman Philately (I): Foreign Post Office Letters for Inland Destinations
Gröger, Hans-Dieter Specialities of Ottoman Philately (II) – Turkey Duloz 1876: Proofs and Trials for the Unissued 5 and 25 Piastres
Gröger, Hans-Dieter Specialities of Ottoman Philately (III): The 25 Piastres Changeling of the 1876 Empire Issue
Gröger, Hans-Dieter Turkey Coat-of-Arms: Rarities and Varieties
Gröger, Hans-Dieter Turkey Empire 1891: Complete Sheet of the 20 Paras Stamp Overprinted “Imprimé”
Keeda, Peter Julius Bolthausen Covers and Postcards
Klerk, Schalk W. de Walter Mittelholzer’s Balkan Flight 1934
Leimenstoll, Wolfgang International Reply Coupons of Turkey: Greek Occupation of the Island of Lesbos with Mytilene 1912
Leimenstoll, Wolfgang International Reply Coupons of Turkey: Greek Occupation of the Island of Lesbos with Mytilene 1912
Longbottom, Philip The WWI Censor Seals of the Ottoman Empire
Louw, Ot From Smyrna to Molyvos (Mytilene) 1903
Mellaart, Alan Research Request: The Registered Mail of the Ottoman Empire 1840–1923
Nössig, Tilmann German Post in Turkey: Early Printed Matter Frankings with North-German Stamps 1870/71
Nössig, Tilmann The Postal Connections from Constantinople to Germany until the End of 1871
Okday, İsmail Hakkı Tevfik Postage-Paid Seals of the Ottoman Empire in the Pre-Philatelic Period
Okday, İsmail Hakkı Tevfik The Turkish Post Before the Introduction of Stamps in Lebanon
Pijnenburg, Willy Ay Yıldız: About Stumbling, Tumbling and Leaning Numbers
Pijnenburg, Willy Mayo’s “Chisel”: The Overprint Variety AY with MiNr. 739 (Osmanlı Postaları 1337)
Pijnenburg, Willy New Postmark Discoveries from the Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa–Dersaʿadet (Svilengrad–İstanbul) Railway
Pijnenburg, Willy The İstanbul Provisionals: An Update
Pijnenburg, Willy Turkey 1921/1922: Is there a third Adana overprint series?
Popov, Georgi The Turkish Post in Bulgaria: New Discoveries
Rhein, Martin Société Britannique de Secours aux Blessés Militaires (British Red Cross) in Smyrna in 1878
Richter Ercan O. Pogon Ambulant Post Office: A Rural Postal Service in Ottoman Times?
Rohlfs, Gerhard The Postal Conditions in Tripoli (Libya) in 1879
Rosen, Eric Turkey: Small Tughras Plate Error? “PAPAS” (2pa 1911, MiNr. 180)
Savopoulos Alexandros The Αustrian Post in Thessaloniki During the late Ottoman Period
Schmitz, Ernst J. Archive: The Postal Services in Palestine 1913
Seral, Osman L. The Agony of Quarantine in Smyrna in 1890: İzmir Quarantine Administration 1889
Seral, Osman L. The Ottoman Field Post Office 44
Smith, David K. Bon Samaritain (Khan al-Hathrur) (III)
Soetens, Hans P. International Reply Coupons of Turkey: Greek Occupation of the Island of Lesbos with Mytilene 1912
Soetens, Hans P. Ottoman Censorship Markings of WWI - Part I: Negative Censorship Markings
Soetens, Hans P. Ottoman Censorship Markings of WWI – Part II: Positive Censorship Markings A–H
Soetens, Hans P. Ottoman Censorship Markings of WWI – Part III: Positive Censor Markings İ–Z
Soetens, Hans P. Ottoman Censorship Markings of WWI – Part IV: Insured Letters with Wax Seals
Soetens, Hans P. Plate Errors of the Empire Stamps – Passer Revised: Part 1: The 2 Piastres Stamps (1876–1890)
Soetens, Hans P. Plate Errors of the Empire Stamps – Passer Revised: Part 2: The 10 Paras Stamps
Soetens, Hans P. Plate Errors of the Empire Stamps – Passer Revised: Part 3: The 50 Paras Stamps
Soetens, Hans P. Plate Errors of the Empire Stamps – Passer Revised: Part 4: The 20 Paras Stamps
Sohrne, Björn Request for Information: Ottoman Postal Route to Persia: via Trebizonde, Erzurum, Bayazid, and Tabriz
Sohrne, Björn RFI: Compagnie Perso-Ottomane de Navigation à Vapeur (S. Atychidès and Th. B. Vahratoglou)
Sohrne, Björn RFI: Ottoman Postal Route to Persia via Trebizonde, Erzurum, Bayazid, and Tabriz
Sohrne, Björn RFI: Ottoman Postal Route to Persia via Trebizonde, Erzurum, Bayazid, and Tabriz
Sohrne, Björn The Two Postal Conventions of 1884 and 1892 between Ottoman Turkey and Persia : a Neglected Matter
Taitl, Horst The Austro-Hungarian Medical Corps in Turkey
Tunacı, Atadan British Railway Company Cancellations of the Ottoman Empire in Western Anatolia
Tunacı, Atadan Railway Mail Services in Ottoman Europe (I) – C.O., C.O.S.M., J.S.C.
Tunacı, Atadan Railway Mail Services in Ottoman Europe (II) Ottoman Railway Station Post Offices and TPOs
Tunacı, Atadan The Thessalian Railways
Turkish Postal Administration A Short History of the Turkish Posts
Unger, [?] Maritime and Road Traffic in Constantinople (1875)
Unger, [?] The Turkish Posts
Vliet Oscar van der The Revenue Stamps of Crete – Part A: The Ottoman period 1845–1898
Warnecke, Jens Emergency Measures of the Ottoman Post during the First World War
Warnecke, Jens New Discovery: Gum-side Printing of the 1923 5p Ay Yıldız
Warnecke, Jens Proofs of Turkey’s 1916 Leander’s Tower Postcards
Warnecke, Jens The Red Crescent Exhibition Constantinople 1917
Yılmaz, Hakan A 1915 Cover from Rızā Bey to Enver Paşa
Yılmaz, Hakan A 1919 Letter from Baghdad to İstanbul via London
Yılmaz, Hakan German “Marine Schiffspost” in Turkey, WWI: MSP 14, 29, and 69 – Ships: General, Loreley, Goeben (Sultan Yavuz Selim), and Breslau (Midilli)
Yılmaz, Hakan İstanbul Mosques on Ottoman Postcards – Part 1: Ayasofya General Views
Yılmaz, Hakan İstanbul Mosques on Ottoman Postcards – Part 2: Ayasofya
Yılmaz, Hakan İstanbul Views on Ottoman Postcards – Part 1: The Beyazıt Fire-Watch Tower and the Fire Fighters of İstanbul
Yılmaz, Hakan The Dolmabahçe Imperial Palace Post Office: Saray-ı Hümayun – Palais Impérial
Yılmaz, Hakan The WWI Censor Seals of the Ottoman Empire
Yılmaz, Hakan Turkish Occupation of Thessaly 1897/98
Yılmaz, Hakan Turkey 1938 Obligatory Tax Stamps “P.Y.S” (Posta Yardım Sandığı): Where did the Revenues go to?
Zywietz, Tobias “Filthy beyond Belief” : A Postal Card from Djeddah 1893
Zywietz, Tobias A 1920s Turkish Stamp Album: “ پول البومى ” (pūl albümi)
Zywietz, Tobias A Rare Ottoman Cover from Amman, 1918 with newly discovered Amman Censor Mark
Zywietz, Tobias Ankara 2023 National and International Stamp Exhibition – Results
Zywietz, Tobias Asaf Tanrıkut: Türkiye Posta ve Telgraf ve Telefon tarihi ve teşkilât ve mevzuatı
Zywietz, Tobias Asaf Tanrıkut: Türkiye Posta ve Telgraf ve Telefon tarihi ve teşkilât ve mevzuatı
Zywietz, Tobias Beware the Certificate: Bosnia to Austria Postage Due 1866?
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: The Ottoman Post Offices and Services in Iraq (Kemal Giray)
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: Collecting Hejaz Railway (Martin C. Lovegrove)
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: Der Orient-Express 1883–1914 (Ute & Elmar Dorr)
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: Holy Land: Turkish Post in Palestine 1851–1918 The Itamar Karpovsky Collection
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: Microhistory of the Turkish Posts 1920–2015 – Volume 1: 1920–1950 (Mehmet Akan & Timur Kuran)
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: Ottoman Post Offices and Services in Albania (Kemal Giray & Otto Graf)
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: Post Offices of the Ottoman Empire (M. Bülent Papuççuoğlu)
Zywietz, Tobias Book Review: Turkey Ottoman Empire Military Censorship During World War I 1914–1918 (John Patrick Garton)
Zywietz, Tobias German Consulate in Trabzon: Trade Report 1871 (RFI: Ottoman Postal Route to Persia via Trebizonde, Erzurum, Bayazid, and Tabriz)
Zywietz, Tobias Hejaz Railway Revenue Stamps on a 1916 Quarry Bill
Zywietz, Tobias Holy Land Hotel Cachet: New Hotel Haifa Palestine A. Nassar 1898
Zywietz, Tobias Mr. Scudamore’s Appointment
Zywietz, Tobias Ottoman Censorship Instructions 1914
Zywietz, Tobias Philatelic Literature: Holy Land Postal History digitised
Zywietz, Tobias Prisoners of War at the Ottoman Front during WWI (Giray)
Zywietz, Tobias Queries & Research Notes: Le Timbre Levantin
Zywietz, Tobias Reports from the 1902 Cholera Epidemic in Palestine
Zywietz, Tobias Research Request: “Le Loi sur le Timbre” – Ottoman Fiscal Stamp Law 1893
Zywietz, Tobias RFI: Existence of Postmark Usunca Owa in Bulgaria (Usundsha Ova, Uzundja-ova, Uzundzhovo)
Zywietz, Tobias RFI: Turkish Post operating in Northern Syria (Jinderes, Shayk al-Hadid, Rajo Afrin, Azaz, Marea, Al-Rai, Jarabulus, Tell Abiad, Ras al-Ayn)
Zywietz, Tobias Telephones in Constantinople (but only for the Sultan)
Zywietz, Tobias The 1905 Amendment to the Postal Convention of 1892 Between the Ottoman Empire and Persia
Zywietz, Tobias The Agony of Quarantine in Smyrna in 1890
Zywietz, Tobias The Air Defence School (FLAK-Schule) at San Stefano (Yeşilköy)
Zywietz, Tobias The Joint Telegraph Office at Pera (Ottoman Posts/Eastern Telegraph Co.)
Zywietz, Tobias The Mail Robbery between Jaffa and Jerusalem in March 1912
Zywietz, Tobias The Old General Post Office of Jerusalem on Historical Photographs
Zywietz, Tobias The Old General Post Office of Jerusalem on Historical Photographs – Revisited
Zywietz, Tobias The Oriental Travels of Julius Bolthausen – Part 2: More Bolthausen Picture Post Cards
Zywietz, Tobias The Oriental Travels of Julius Bolthausen – Part 4: Bisecting Austrian Levant Stamps in Caifa 1908
Zywietz, Tobias The Oriental Travels of Julius Bolthausen: The Picture Postcards
Zywietz, Tobias The Ottoman Postmarks Projects – Joint Research by AROS, OPAL, and ONEPS
Zywietz, Tobias The Postal Convention of 1884 Between the Ottoman Empire and Persia
Zywietz, Tobias The Stamps of Alexandretta and Hatay amidst the Conflict
Zywietz, Tobias Turkey 1938 Obligatory Tax Stamps “P.Y.S” (Posta Yardım Sandığı): Where did the Revenues go to?

FEPA News Magazine Archive

News and Articles on Turkey, Ottoman Empire and Turkish Philately Published in FEPA News (2002-2025) (ISSN 2218-516X):

FEPA Medals 24, FEPA News No 46, February 2025: 26 and 76
Arıkan, Arman New Board of the Turkish Philatelic Academy, FEPA News No 38, January 2021: 45
Akan, Mehmet Ankara '23 FEPA News No 44, January 2024: 26
Akan, Mehmet Turkish Philatelic Academy: Postal History Workshop & Philatelic Exhibition, FEPA News No 42, January 2023: 64-65
Turkey Commemorates Healthcare Staff who died from Covid 19, FEPA News No 39, July 2021: 14
FEPA Award For Exceptiobal Study abna Research, 2019, FEPA News No 37, July 2020: 53
Morolli ,Giancarlo FEPA Awards for Exceptional Study and Research 2019, FEPA News No 37, July 2020: 51-53
Ağaoğulları, M. Ziya Turkish Federation organizes ‘virtual’ exhibition to mark the Centenary of the Turkish National Assembly, FEPA News No 37, July 2020: 20
Pachi ,Bajram The Post Offices in Albanian cities during the Ottoman Empire, FEPA News No 37, July 2020: 64-66
Turkey, Spain and Finland declared winners of the World Competition for the 3 Best Maximum Cards 2018, FEPA News No 36, January 2020: 21
Plovdiv Phila 2019 International Exhibition in Bulgaria, FEPA News No 36, January 2020: 36-38
TURKEY – New Board, FEPA News No 36, January 2020: 56
Microhistory of the Turkish Posts, 1920-2015 Volume I, FEPA News No 36, January 2020: 76
Arıkan, Arman KKTC’19 (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) National Philatelic Exhibition, FEPA News No 35, June 2019: 22-24
Akan, Mehmet ANKARA 2018 National Philatelic Exhibition “Ephemera in Philately”, FEPA News No 33, June 2018: 15-16
Venice and the Levant - From XIV to XVII Century, FEPA News No 33, June 2018: 74
News from Turkey "Turkish Philatelic Expert Committee", FEPA News No 32, January 2018: 51
News from Turkey "Newly Elected Board of Directors of the Turkish Philatelic Federation", FEPA News No 32, January 2018: 52
Spring STAMPEX 2017 with FEPA Recognition, FEPA News No 30, January 2017: 53
News from Turkey "Elected New Board of the Turkish Federation", FEPA News No 28, January 2016: 54
ÇANAKKALE 2015, FEPA News No 27, June 2015: 19-21
Arıkan, Arman Gaziantep 2014 Turkish National Philatelic Exhibition, FEPA News No 26, January 2015: 46
Çanakkale 2015 International Stamp Exhibition, FEPA News No 26, January 2015: 57
Stamps and Postcards of Eastern Rumelia and South Bulgaria 1878-1885, FEPA News No 26, January 2015: 77
National Exhibition “50th Anniversary of Turkish Cyprus Post”, FEPA News No 25, June 2014: 10
Ankara PTT Stamp Museum, FEPA News No 25, June 2014: 11
Balkanfila 2014, Vidin, FEPA News No 25, June 2014: 19-21
Introduction of Philately to Youth in Turkey, FEPA News No 25, June 2014: 38
The Turkish Philatelic Federations is 50 Years Old, FEPA News, June 2013: 37
Turkey A Philatelic Exhibition: “From Olympia to Olympics”, FEPA News, June 2013: 38
Konya and Kayseri Turkish National Exhibitions, FEPA News, June 2013: 39
Federation of Turkish Philatelic, FEPA News, June 2012: 27
The 5th Meeting of the BALKANFILA Working Group, FEPA News No 16, December 2009: 20-21
New Board of Directors of the Turkish Federation, FEPA News No 16, December 2009: 27
Newly accredited FEPA Jurors, FEPA News No 16, December 2009: 47
The Balkanfila Working Group meets during the EFIRO 2008 time in Bucarest, FEPA News No 14, December 2008: 11-12
The Alexander Collection, FEPA News No 14, December 2008: 97
Minutes of the 3rd Meeting of the Balkanfila Working Group, FEPA News No 13, May 2008: 24-26
New Board of the Turkish Federation, FEPA News No 13, May 2008: 46
Vaz Pereira, Pedro BALKANFILA-2007 The Magic of lstanbul, FEPA News No 12, December 2007: 72-78
Güzhan, Saadettin BALKANIFILA XIV 2007, FEPA News No 12, December 2007: 78-80
Pirc, Igor BALKANS Countries New Regional Working Group in SE Europa, FEPA News No 11, June 2007: 24-25
As the BALKANFILA XIV Stamp Exhibition Approaches... October 28th-November 3rd 2007, FEPA News No 11, June 2007: 78-79
New Board of the Turkish Philatelic Federation, FEPA News No 09, May 2006: 42
Turkey elected board, FEPA News No 05, May 2004: 37