A Telegram to Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany from Abdul Hammid II, 34th Sultan of Ottoman Empire
dated 25.10.1898, sending the Kaiser well wishes on having arrived safely, a reply annotated in pencil to verso, possibly by Kaiser Wilhelm II

Kaiser Wilhelm II was twice hosted by Abdul Hamid in Constantinople; first on 21 October 1889, and nine years later, on 5 October 1898. (Wilhelm II later visited Constantinople for a third time, on 15 October 1917, as a guest of Mehmed V). German officers (like Baron von der Goltz and Bodo-Borries von Ditfurth) were employed to oversee the organization of the Ottoman army.