These photographs, taken at different moments of the 20th century, are a treasure in terms of seeing the change process of humanity.
These historical photographs, which reflect various moments in a century, allow us to see more clearly the change that places and people go through, both in Turkey and around the world.
Some photos, perhaps, show the streets you pass every day as they were years ago, and you can be sure that you will have a hard time recognizing these areas.
1. The moment when a mountaineer gave food to a bear who could not find food due to a snowstorm in Russia (1970s)
2. The family from Bingöl who survived the Titanic disaster (1912)
3. Istanbul in 1963
4. Naşit Özcan, one of the plane trees of our theater history, and his daughter Adile Naşit
5. Hatay, Iskenderun (1960)
6. Taksim Square under construction, 1928 (coloured)
7. A photo of a cat from the 1900s
8. Istiklal Street in 1999
9. Istiklal Avenue on a snowy day (1995)
10. The first Turkish female police chief, Şerife Feriha Sanerk
11th President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on his way to Trabzon on the Izmir ferry (1937)
12. Hacettepe University Campus, Ankara (1970)
13. Istanbul, Gümüşsuyu in the 1950s. Dolmabahçe Mosque can be seen in the background.
14. A mobile coffee shop in Istanbul in the 1900s
15. Turkish soldiers waiting in Kabataş to participate in the Dardanelles War
16. Eminonu, Istanbul (1948)
17. A woman calling a taxi in New York (1956)
18. World Tour with Barış Manço (1990)
19. Babies who are put to sleep outside in the cold of winter to develop their immune systems (Soviet Union, 1958)
20. A group of ladies chatting in Istanbul (1960)
21. Angelina Jolie in her mother’s arms (1976)
22. Dutch resistance fighters listening to the news of Adolf Hitler’s death on the radio (1945)
23. Istanbul, Arnavutkoy (1940)
24. A photograph taken by photographer Ara Güler in 1950
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