Turkish Streetcar token? [opgelost]

Here is a second token that I acquired in an auction lot. The writing leaves me to believe it is from the middle east, maybe Turkey. A friend suggested that it maybe a streetcar token from Istanbul. Any help would be appreciated.

Particulars:
Diameter : 18.5 mm
weight : 1.55g
Material :  ? (not magnetic)




Thank you for the help.

Hi,

If I am not mistaken, this particular token is for passage on the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, and is from around 1913.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11075.html

Indeed correct.
If you do a search in this forum you will find a lot of info on that 'bridge money'
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic5695.html
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic6500.html
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic38910.html

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic41198.html :
is a Galata bridge token of 20 para
Date : about 1900-1920
It is Ottoman. It's the fare you pay to the tills when you cross Galata Bridge, which is a brigde that conencts two districts, Eminönü to Galata, the Muslim part (Eminönü) to the Non-Muslim part (Galata). Galata is an anciant settlement, originally settled by Italian levantens in early 1100's. It was autonomous until 1700's,and had his own ruler, called "Voivoda of Galata". Today, Galata is an old town district, very touristic indeed.
Yes, the word "Voivoda" is borrowed from Balkans, back then rulers of semi-autonom regions inside Ottoman Empire called "Voivodas". The naming tradition dates back to 1400's, when the Ottomans have both ally voivodas and enemy voivodas in the Balkans.
The old wooden Galata Brigde got burned down in 1992. A new, steel and metal brigde is made to replace it, since it is in a vital, busy traffic section of Istanbul. Cars coming from Eminönü and Aksaray have to cross it to get to Taksim, Beyoglu and Galata. It has a twin brigde, called Unkapani Brigde too, to relieve traffic.

https://www.google.be/maps/place/Galata+Bridge/41.0201528,28.9738162,613m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x14cab9ebc160871b:0x9500f83c603869a0!8m2!3d41.0184003!4d28.9720567

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Galata_Bridge

I bought a paperback book many years ago, about world coins and how to identify them. On one of the opening pages of the book, there was a photo of a Galata Bridge token, and an explanation of what it was and why it could not be found in a world coin catalog!

Apparently, there are so many of these around that someone had been bombarded with attribution requests for them!

Is the Galata Bridge the railroad bridge that The Orient Express would use?

Thank you everyone for such a quick reply. It is always a joy to learn something new!

Citeer: "halfdisme"​
​Is the Galata Bridge the railroad bridge that The Orient Express would use?

​Don't believe so, the Galata Bridge was a relatively small and flimsy structure:


The Orient Express also began on the European side of Istanbul/Constantinople, before running all the way to Paris.

Citeer: "CassTaylor"​

Citeer: "halfdisme"​​
​​Is the Galata Bridge the railroad bridge that The Orient Express would use?

​​Don't believe so, the Galata Bridge was a relatively small and flimsy structure:
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​The Orient Express also began on the European side of Istanbul/Constantinople, before running all the way to Paris.

​I had misread the capacity of the bridge, in the sidebar of the wikipedia article.

Another wikipedia article says:

"On June 1, 1889, the first direct train to Istanbul left Paris (Gare de l'Est). Istanbul remained its easternmost stop until May 19, 1977. The eastern terminus was the Sirkeci Terminal by the Golden Horn. Ferry service from piers next to the terminal would take passengers across the Bosphorus to Haydarpaşa Terminal, the terminus of the Asian lines of the Ottoman Railways."

Long ago, I read that the Orient Express helped with communications between Germany and the Ottoman Empire, prior to World War I, when both countries were Central Powers. The Express went through Munich, not Berlin, but there should have been another rail connection between Munich and Berlin.