Ottoman and Turkish Philatelic Societies
Ottoman and Near East Philatelic Society Publishes the journal The Levant. ONEPS is the successor to the Turkish and Ottoman Philatelic Society, which published The Tughra Times from 1979 through 1999
Oriental Philatelic Society of London Publishes the OPAL journal.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Türkei/Osmanisches Reich The German society for Turkish and Ottoman philately. Publishes the journal Türkei-Spiegel.
Ebay Ottoman and Turkish Collectors' Group An online group of Ebay members who collect Turkey.
Sites on Turkish Philately
Turkish postal history
Catalog of Ottoman stamps to 1921 by Ioannis Stantzopoulos
A List of Turkish Post Offices This site gives an extensive list of post offices by country. Click on Turkey, and the post offices will be listed by their country of current location. Most offices are spelled in the French-based transliteration system of Ottoman postmarks as well as in the Arabic script. The latitude and longitude are also given for most offices, which makes this a very helpful site.
Turkish stamps
Radek Cerny's exhibit of the Duloz issue
Cenk Sarıuçak’s site on Turkish philately.
Rod Collier's philatelic site with some spectacular Ottoman material
Bill Seymour's page of his Turkish collection
A Turkish site with interesting exhibits, as well as news and comments.
Turkish philately, especially Cilicia-1919-21
New Turkish issues
Baris Yakar's blog on Turkish postal history
A site for Turkish postal history
A German site on Ottoman history. Not a philatelic site, but lots of useful information, including historical maps.
1910 quadruple-weight registered letter from Pera (Istanbul) to Hannover.
One piastre for letter rate, one piastre for registration. The rate for additional units of 20 grams on foreign mail was reduced to 30 paras (.75 piastre) on 10 September 1909.
3 x 30 paras for second, third, and fourth increment of 20 paras totalled 2 piastres, 10 paras (90 paras).
Total of four piastres, 10 paras paid.
General Philatelic Sites
Ask Phil A great source of information on anything philatelic.
Exponet A virtual philatelic exhibit with exhibitors from 46 countries.
Philapedia. A worldwide link on postal history.
A very good site on postal history.
A page with techniques for scanning stamps.
A site on laying out exhibits, scanning, and other digital philately
A general site for discussion of stamps.
A chat site on stamp collecting.
A good site for discussion and questions and answers.
An online stamp club with chat and information.
The Philatelic database. A source of information with maps, videos, a philatelic dictionary, and other resources.
1902 cover for printed matter from Istanbul to Switzerland.