Branch Activities
From its beginning, the Bank continually opened new branches all around the Ottoman Empire, building a network of around 80 branches just before the outbreak of World War I.
- 1856 London, Istanbul-Galata, Symirna, Galaţi (closed in 1866), Beyrouth (closed in 1921)
- 1861 Bucarest (closed in 1866)
- 1862 Salonika, Aydin, Afyon Carahissar (closed in 1880), Manisa, Larnaca
- 1865 Isparta
- 1866 Alexandria
- 1868 Paris
- 1869 Antalya
- 1872 Port Said
- 1875 Ruscuk (closed in 1880), Edirne, Bursa, Damascus (closed in 1921)
- 1878 Plovdiv (closed in 1899)
- 1879 Nicosia, Limassol
- 1880 Varna (closed in 1882)
- 1881 Nazilli (closed in 1898)
- 1886 Istanbul-Yeni Cami
- 1889 Adana, Konya
- 1890 Sofia (closed in 1899), Denizli, Mugla
- 1891 Istanbul-Pera, Balikesir, Usak, Samsun, Trabzon
- 1892 Ruscuk (reopened and closed in 1899), Mersin, Baghdad,
- 1893 Ankara, Aleppo (closed in 1921), Bassorah
- 1898 Mytilini (closed in 1921)
- 1899 Kastamonu, Sivas
- 1903 Monastir (closed in 1914), Skopje (closed in 1914)
- 1904 Alexandroupoli (closed in 1914), Kavala, Eskisehir, Aksehir, Tripoli, Syria (closed in 1921), .
- 1905 Nazilli (reopened), Bandirma, Bilecik, Jaffa, Jerusalem.
- 1906 Xanthi (closed in 1914), Erzurum, Giresun, Kutahya, Gaziantep, Silifke (closed in 1907), Famagusta, Haifa, Tripoli (Libya) (closed in 1912)
- 1907 Adapazari, Mosul, Minieh
- 1908 Tarsus, Homs (closed in 1921)
- 1909 Komotini (closed in 1914), Tekirdag
- 1910 Soufli, Drama (closed in 1921), Serres (closed in 1921), Ioannina (closed in 1921), Kayseri, Inebolu, Ordu, Geyve, Bolvadin, Mansureh
- 1911 Manchester, Scutari of Albania (closed in 1914), Rhodes (closed in 1921), Diyarbekir, Elazig, Bitlis, Van, Ceyhan, Saida (closed in 1921), Hodeida (closed in 1921), Benghazi (closed in 1912).
- 1912 Bolu, Urfa, Sandıklı, Söke, Djeddah (closed in 1916)
- 1913 Iskenderun (closed in 1921)
- 1914 Canakkale, Zahleh (closed in 1921)
- 1916 Marseille
- 1918 Paphos
- 1919 Hamah (closed in 1921)
- 1920 Kirkuk, Ashar, Tunis, Kermanshah
- 1921 Troödos (Cyprus), Zonguldak
- 1922 Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nabulus, Hamadan, Tehran
- 1924 Musky-Cairo, Ismailia
- 1925 Amman
- 1926 Malatya (Turkey), Manisa (Turkey)
- 1931 Tel Aviv
- 1940 Geneifa (Egypt)
- 1941 Port Tewfik (Egypt)
- 1942 Mehalla Kebir (Egypt)
- 1943 Kyrenia
- 1946 Lefka, Morphou
- 1947 Jerusalem-West, Fayoum, Tantah (Egypt)
- 1948 Arbil
- 1949 Khartoum, Port Sudan
- 1956 Qatar
- 1962 Abu-Dhabi
- 1969 Muscat
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