My first ribbon bar with Turkish awards...

[HeikoGrusdat]

Rick I am always happy to help a bit because often enough I need your help...

can you tell me what that ottoman medal is for - now I have no idea???

Heiko

Edited August 14, 2005 by HeikoGrusdat

[HeikoGrusdat]

and one more for your enjoyment...

[Bob Hunter]

Handsome multinational bar! Seems we have Turks and Greeks peacefully coexisting on the same bar.

[Stogieman]

Nice bars Heiko, very nice!

[Guest Rick Research]

The red and white ribboned medal in #26 is the "Sanay" Medal "for arts and sciences."

It was often given, God alone knows why, instead of a Liakat for noncombatant merit before and even during the war. My late guru had a group to a CHAFFEUR who got this in the war, apparently for lack of anything more appropriate that anyone could think of!

[Guest Rick Research]

Slowwwwwwww forward to 2009:

Here's a LONG delayed follow up. I was going through Baden's horrible Z?hringen Lion WW1 rolls and lo and behold FINALLY found what Lieutenant Ibrahim M?nir is wearing in last place. The stripes are wrong wrong wrong which is what threw me off hunting for a Saxon Albert Order:

but here he was-- Z?hringen Lion Knight 2nd with Swords (BZ3bX) on 18 January 1916:

There is NO way that what he was wearing was the green and orange Baden ribbon, but there we go. Looks to me like he's wearing another EK2 ribbon only with Xs on it.

[webr55]

I wonder what update there'll be on this in 2013....

[Noor]

Here is my contribution on this threat.

My bars with some Turkish connection

[Noor]

My ultimate favorite one is 4th with lovely lovely device!!!

[dedehansen]

On 14/08/2005 at 10:16, HeikoGrusdat said:

and here ist the medal to your ribbon, of course on a nice bar... does anybody know what stands behind the colours of this ribbon??? really looks like something in the east block....

Hi Heiko,

I quote an article from Werner Sauer Info 59, Oct. 1988:

Grün-Rot des türkischen Herrscher-Hauses, die Orange-Farbe des vom Sultan getragenem

höchsten preusischen Ordens (Roter Adler Orden)

red-green from the ruling Osman house and the orange from the Sultan highest

prussian order Red Eagle Order.

Regards
Andreas