Local Street Life in Turkey from the 1850s to the 1990s

* İstiklal Avenue (1989), İzmir Quay (1990s), Street Barbers (1885)

** Photos: SALT Research Collections

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The pedestrianization works in İstiklal Avenue in Taksim in 1989, Princes' Islands in 1903, Four-Legged Minaret in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır in 1969 and Özen Teahouse in Diyarbakır on the same street, the old days of Adana Borsa Avenue, Eskişehir in the 1990s...

SALT Online's photographic selection is offering an insight into the local street life in Turkey from the 1850s to the 1990s. Here you can find snapshots from the streets of İstanbul as well as several Anatolian cities.

* Beyoğlu Ayhan Işık Street in 1989

Traveling barber shops under giant plane trees, temporary food stalls, coffeehouse crowds, parks and recreation spaces, fairs and open markets, lively streets and town squares filled with residents, travelers and vendors...

A photographic selection from SALT Research collections depicting everyday life in Istanbul and in several Anatolian cities is available online now.

* Diyarbakır Gazi Avenue in the 1920s

64 photographs, most of which are in black and white, show how the street culture in Turkey has changed over time. (AÖ/SD)