1 Livre Turque

The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled body established in 1881 after the empire's sovereign default, staffed largely by French and British creditor representatives. That this same institution was still issuing emergency wartime currency in 1916 reflects how thoroughly the Ottoman state's finances had been penetrated by foreign interests, even as the empire fought on the side of the Central Powers against those same creditor nations.

Dèsèque & Dèvillin were a Paris-based printing house, though wartime conditions by 1916 make the actual production logistics of this series genuinely murky. Paper quality in late issues of the type is notoriously inconsistent.