Historical Photos Taken in the Last Century

Wars, politicians, cities, celebrities, local people and more… These frames, which are reflected in the frames of the photographers, have reached the present day and bring the atmosphere of those days to us.

Seeing the lives of those years that had a share in shaping our day is important to understand how humanity was shaped. Here are some moments from the past of the world and our country, reflected in the present:

1. A nomadic woman in Anatolia and her baby in a saddlebag (1940)

2. Bodrum, Muğla (1960s)

3. Bosnian soldier who learned that his family was murdered by Serbian soldiers when he returned to his village (1995)

4. A photo taken during the Bosnian War

5. A winter day in Ağrı (1977)

6. A lahmacun in Istanbul (1970)

7. Famous Painter Bob Ross feeding a raccoon

8. Uyghur Turks (1943)

9. Istiklal Avenue (1980)

10. Ferhan Şensoy, Erol Günaydın, Rasim Öztekin, Baykal Kent and Münir Özkul (1987)

The heroic soldiers of the 124th Regiment, who participated in the 11th Dardanelles Battles

12. Teacher Rasim Kaygusuz, author of the book “Cin Ali” and one of his students

Ankara Suvan School and Orphanage opened by the Turkish military for orphaned Korean children during the 13th Korean War

14. German soldiers who froze to death during the Battle of Stalingrad (1943)

15. One of the rare photographs of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

16. Zeki Muren (1940)

17. Last photo of Charlie Chaplin (1977)

18. Turkish children in Thessaloniki (1898)

19. Two children in Nevşehir (1960)

20. Aydın Yörük Turks (1956)

21. What remains of Vladimir Komarov, the man who fell from space (1967)

22. Russian writer Lev Tolstoy in his study (1908)

23. One of the last photographs of Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s mother, Zübeyde Hanım.

24. Turkish soldiers landing on the island during the Cyprus Peace Operation (1974)

25. Nobel Prize-winning Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar while working in the laboratory (1975)