Rare Ottoman Illustrated magazine newspaper, dated 16 June 1926, from the early years of the Turkish Republic proclaimed in 1923. On the cover is a photo of Karadeniz (Black Sea) steamship converted to a floating fair, which sailed from Istanbul on 12 June 2026, and three photos overlapping each other - 2 photos of exhibition rooms and items, and a photo of the sailing ceremony (last picture at the bottom) with probably Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk himself (not sure though). The ship sailed to Europe and visited 12 countries and 16 cities among which important European cities such as Barcelona, London, Hamburg, Stockholm, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Venice, and Copenhagen.

About the project: traveling to Europe of Karadeniz (Black Sea) ship from port to port, was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's own project to promote the new image of modern Turkey. It was a mobile exhibition taking samples from the Turkish art and civilization to the Western ports, first of its kind, the international public relations ship of young Turkey created with the vision of exporting.

On the back cover there are two photos from the coronation of Iranian Reza Shah Pahlavi, the founder of Pahlavi Dynasty in Iran, which took place on 26 April 1926.