TURKEY

TURKEY / TÜRKİYE.

Definitive stamps.
Euphrates Bridge, Birecik.
Fifth stamp in a set of 11, issued on 1959.
Face value: 20 Turkish kuruş.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 20,000,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 25 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1701C.
- Scott No. 1446.
- StampWorld No. 1736.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1857.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1434.

Birecik is a city and a district in Şanlıurfa Province, on the Euphrates River. The population of the city, according to the 2012 census, was 48,706 people. Construction of the bridge seen on the stamp began in August 1951 and was completed in March 1956. It is a five-arch bridge, 695 m (2,280 ft) long and 11 m (36 ft) wide. The C.400 state highway crosses the Euphrates through it.