Effects of the Post on Everyday Life in Ottoman Times from 1840 Onwards

ARIT Lecture by Turhan Turgut

ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, İstiklal Caddesi No. 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

This talk will be on the Ottoman postal services, the organization and detail of which extended throughout the Empire. It will provide some fascinating insights into the rich social fabric of Ottoman life.

Turhan Turgut is an internationally acknowledged expert on European and Ottoman postal history, President of the Academy of Turkish Philately. Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society. Author of Postal History of the Ottoman Empire - Rates and Routes - 1840 - 1922