Turkey Collection (page 16)

Greek art. Asia Minor. Colossal head of a youth. Pergamon. Marble. 2nd BC. Top terrace Gym. The Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin antiquities collection)

Pergamon Altar. Probably goddess Nyx or one of the Erinyes h
Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. North frieze

Urartu civilization. Bronze Sphinx. From Tushpa or Toprakkale. 7th century B.C. Turkey. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

The Deesis. Detail. Jesus Christ in Majesty as if to bless. 13th century. Mosaic. Hagia Sophia. Istanbul. Turkey

Turkey. Istanbul. Chora Church. Parecclesion
Fresco in the Parecclesion depicting the Anastasis. Christ pulling Adam and Eve out their tombs. Entoured by the righteous kings and Saint John the Baptist, David and Solomon. 14th century

Silk Road. Caravan of camels resting. Engraving
Silk Road. Caravan of camels resting. Antioch. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Cartoon, The Hands with Right on their Side, WW1
Cartoon, The Hands with Right on their Side. Two large hands representing the Allied forces tower over the four small leaders of the Central Powers cowering in the middle

Turkeys galore outside a butcher in High Wycombe
A spectacular display of turkeys hanging outside a butchers shop in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. They are so numerous (and are joined by rabbits and a lone pig)

Turkish battlecruiser, Yavuz Sultan Selim, formerly the German ship SMS Goeben, transferred to Turkey in 1914. Date: circa 1920

Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, WW1
Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, showing an Austro-Hungarian or German officer in eastern costume introducing a plump German woman, Fraulein Gans (Miss Goose)

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Abdul Hamid, WW1
Cartoon, The Expert, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback with massacred civilians at his feet and a sword dripping with blood

Bektashi Dervish at Tangiers, Morocco. Founder of the Bektashi order was Hajji Bektash Wali (1209 - 1271) - is today a renowned figure in the history and culture of both Ottoman Empire

Thessaloniki, Greece - Bombings of Boatmen of Thessaloniki
The Boatmen of Thessaloniki (or the Assassins of Salonica), were a Bulgarian anarchistic group, active in the Ottoman Empire in the years between 1900 - 1903

Bursa, Turkey - School of Silk Weaving / Silk Worm Farming. Fourth largest city and the first Ottoman Capital. Historically also known Prussa and later Brussa

Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action
The Great Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action on the waterfront - note the railway lines, laid by the French. Date: 1922

Sultan Abdulhamid II - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Abdulhamid II (1842-1918) - 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last to exert effective control over the Empire as a whole entity. Date: circa 1916

Sultan Murad V - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Murad V (1840-1904) - 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned (rather briefly) from 30th May to 31st August 1876. Date: 1876

Sultan Mahmud II - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Mahmud II (1789-1839) - the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Date: circa 1830s

Sultan Mustafa I Deli - ruler of the Ottoman Turks
Mustafa I Deli (15911639) son of Mehmed III, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623. Date: circa 1623

Sultan Selim I (The Grim) - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Selim I, nicknamed Yavuz, " the Stern" or " the Steadfast", but often rendered in English as " the Grim" (1465/1466/14701520)

Sultan Mehmed I Celebi - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Mehmed I Celebi (13901421) - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Date: circa 1420

Sultan Orhan - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Orhan or Orhan Bey (12811362), the second bey (ruler) of the Ottoman Empire (at this stage known as the Ottoman Beylik or Emirate). Date: circa 1360

Sultan Osman I - leader of the Ottoman Turks
Osman I or Othman I or Osman Gazi (12581326) Ottoman Turkish Sultan Osman Ghazi, Turkish, nicknamed " Kara" (black) - leader of the Ottoman Turks

Map of Asia Minor (Turkey) - in antiquity - pre-Ottoman Empire. Date: 1804

President Ismet Inonu of Turkey
Mustafa Ismet Inonu (1884-1973) - Turkish Army General, Prime Minister and the second President of the Republic of Turkey

Hittites warriors on a tank. Late imperial period. Hittite art. Imperial Hittite period. Relief on rock. TURKEY. Ankara. Archaeological Museum

Bektashi Symbol in Haji Bektashi Veli Museum
A palihenk (large tash teslim - literally the stone of surrender or abandonment - to be worn on the belt) probably belonging to a Dede Baba / chief sheikh in Haji Bektash Veli Tomb Museum in Nevsehir

Inside of the Osman Gazi Tomb in Bursa, Turkey
A detail from the tomb of Osman Gazi who is one of the original founders of the Ottoman state. The Bursa earthquake in 1855 completely destroyed the original tomb

Prince Mehmed Ertugrul Efendi
HIH Prince Sehzade Mehmed Ertugrul Efendi (1912-1944) - the last crown prince of the Ottoman Empire. Removed from Turkey by the British following the fall of the Sultanate

Istanbul - Hospital at Haydar Pasa, Turkey - The Faculty of Medicine. Date: circa 1910s

Tabriz Prince Baba Bar Ischaja Mualim Date: circa 1903

Lala Baba at Gallipoli WWI
The Scottish Horse bivouacking on the beach at Lala Baba, Suvla Bay, on landing. The beach was under shell fire from a 6-inch gun and casualties soon occurred. Lala Baba is the hill in the background

Balkan Wars 1912
Serbia - The Russian Consol Emiliyanov with his bodyguard at Detchani, 10 miles south of Pech (Pec) during the Balkan War between Russian and the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1912

Gypsy Basket Makers
Gypsy Bohemian basket makers, with baskets made of wood shavings (or rushes?) in a variety of shapes and sizes

Egyptian Lady of the Turkish Harem
Egyptian lady of the Turkish Harem, smoking a Hookah Pipe and reclining on a armchair. The true historical nature of the Turkish/Eastern/Ottoman Harem was the housing of the women

Provincial Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Ruins of Troy - Hissarlik, Turkey
The visible ruins at the site of Hissarlik, excavated by German Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. Schliemann discovered what he thought were the Homerian levels in a massive trench excavation

Turkish Dervish
A Turkish Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Ankara - Turkey - Nationalist Monumental Statue
Ankara. The capital city and administrative centre of Turkey, located in Central Anatolia. Established before 1200BC by the Hittites

Edirne - formerly Andrinople, Turkey
Edirne - formerly Andrinople - close to the border with Greece and Bulgaria. Site of 16 major battles or sieges from Ancient Greek times up until the 1920s

Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey - Constitution
The Sultan travelling to the Friday Prayers after the Proclamation of the Constitution in Constantinople, 1908. Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918)

Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey
Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918) oversaw a period of decline in the power and extent of the Empire, ruling from 31 August 1876 until he was deposed on 27 April 1909

Visit of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II to Turkey
The visit of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife Augusta Viktoria to Constantinople. Pictured here with Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918)

Izmir, Turkey - The Caravan Bridge
Bridge across the Melez River by which camel trains traditionally entered and left Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A modern structure on Greek and Roman foundations, now called the Kemer Bridge

Laz people from Rize
Predictably the Black Sea man, or the " Laz" as he is called with a mixture of affection and sneer, has become a stock figure of the Turkish social typology. This gang is from Rize

Ahmed Riza Bey. Liberal emigree who prepared the groundwork for a future revolution against Sultan Abd� d II Date: circa 1909

Ataturk and General Harrington
Kemal Pasa (Ataturk) and General Harrington (commanding the British troops) - compromising on neutral ground in 1923. A very interesting photograph as it shows a Turkish delegation approaching an

Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) - Fighting at Tripoli
Fighting before the walls of Tripoli. The Italo Turkish War was launched by Italy against Turkey, with the aim of gaining Libya, in order to counterbalance French conquests in North Africa

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