Cards of Turkey
When I was at the 1996 Istambul Bridge Festival I have interested in turkish cards.
Director of the Festival got me information that Turkey has no own cards - Coran forbid
picture of a man.
But cards were printed. And they are copy from different European cards (French, Austrian
etc.).
Usually there are no any information on the box for non stimulating of religious fanatics
(and for protecting of taxes).
For example, at the Festival we played by this turkish cards:
d04594d03j | This joker (with turkish stamp) is the same as standard joker of "Piatnik" (Austria). with standard backs (austrian or hungarian). See "Cards of Austria". There is "Made in Turkey" at the
King |
d04594d03dK |
In 2000 my friend bought this deck in Istanbul:
publisher "Halkali Kagit San." (Istanbul)
d04594d02j01 | d04594d02r01 | d04594d02r01b | box | d04594d02s01 |
d04594d02s02 | d04594d02s03 | extra-cards "Astek" is as hungarian "Artex" |
Full deck, dimension 56x87 mm. (very low quality)
spade | heart | diamond | club |
ace | ace | ace | ace |
king | king | king | king |
queen | queen | queen | queen |
jack | jack | jack | jack |
10 | 9 | 8 | 7 |
other
standard decks 03.08.2006 |
And in c.2000 Turkey started to print souvenir decks.
New (2006) standard deck (courts without inscriptions) with different backs:
box | d04594r020 | box1 | d04594r021 | box2 |
box of this deck has similar design, but only one back | d04594r021 | box3 | box3 |
spade | heart | diamond | club |
ace | ace | ace | ace |
king | king | king | king |
queen | queen | queen | queen |
jack | jack | jack | jack |
10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
one more deck with different backs, each face card has an inscription with name of a back, example:
d04594r077 | r077cQ |