100 Livres Turques

The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled financial body established in 1881 after the Ottoman government's 1875 default, giving foreign creditors direct oversight of specific imperial revenues. That a wartime emergency note carries its name rather than the Imperial Treasury's is telling: by 1918 the empire was financially exhausted, and the OPDA's institutional credibility with creditors still outweighed the central government's own.

The 1918 issues circulated into the post-armistice chaos and were eventually demonetized under early Republican monetary reforms. Notes from this series frequently show heavy handling — the wartime paper supply was inconsistent, and the cotton substrate on later printings tends to be noticeably thinner than earlier issues in the same series.