In 1917, in the city of Nablus in Palestine, before leaving for World War I, an officer in the Ottoman army gave a Palestinian family a small bag containing the Turkish and Palestinian flags and a piece of cloth wrapping some old banknotes of various denominations.
On Nov. 4, after having kept the pouch for all these years, the family handed it over to the Turkish counsel in Jerusalem, Ahmet R. Demirer, during a ceremony held at the headquarters of Nablus Governorate.
