Turkey How is your Turkish?

[TerryG]

Any of you able to decipher this?

[TerryG]

This is the other side...

[TerryG]

a bit closer

[Guest Rick Research]

First three characters in the third line are "224"

[TerryG]

well, that's a start, thanks. Anyone else

[warrior47]

Dear TerryG:

Im a nobbie here ...but i just wanted to say that at this time people have write arabic and spoke turkish in the ottoman empire ...

But today in turkey they write and speak turkish --> so in a some kind of way it isnt turkish ...its ottoman

[Josef Rietveld]

@TerryG

congratulations, it is a very intersting picture because the soldier wears a clasp on his EK2 ? -Ribbon. this turkish clasps a very seldom seen on contemporary pictures.

haynau

[Ed_Haynes]

Some clarification is needed:

-- Turkish was written in a script derived from the Arabic script until Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk's script reforms of 1928. Few contemporary Turks can read the old script today and even most scholars of Turkish history have trouble with some of its quirks. (This is one reason that so little reasearch has been conducted in the Ottoman archives.)

-- I think his buttonhole ribbon is nothing German, but rather the Ottoman Harp Madalyasi (or 1915 War Medal). A buttonhole ribbon was often worn with the appropriate clasps and the familiar spectrum shifts in period film may make it appear black and white.

A really nice photo. I'll try to clean up the legend and see if I can get some friends who have worked in the Ottoman archives to decipher it.

[TerryG]

An old thread but I still do not know what the note says. Anyway, thanks for trying Ed.

[gumbirsingpun]

terry

would it be possible for you tae scan it in high resulation(300 or 400dpi)?

william

[TerryG]

I cannot locate it right now, sorry. Are you able to translate it?

[gumbirsingpun]

not me, but i think my friend can dae it!