- Country: Turkey
- Series: Definitive Postage Stamps, 2008, Turkish Provinces
- Issued on: 28 May 2008
- Format: Stamp
- Emission: Definitive
- Face value: 65 Turkish kuruş
Kırıkkale Province is a province of Turkey. It is located on the crossroads of major highways east of Ankara leading east to the Black Sea region. With its rapid population growth it has become an industrial center. The provincial capital is Kırıkkale.
Kırıkkale is a rapidly growing town in central Turkey, on the Ankara-Kayseri railway near the Kızılırmak River.
Formerly a village, it owes its rapid rise in population mainly to the
establishment of steel mills in the 1950s. These works, among the
largest in the country, specialize in high-quality alloy steel and
machinery. In the 1960s chemical plants were added.
