Hürriyet daily found out the story of this photo. It was taken in 1958 in Küçükayasofya, Istanbul by a veteran Turkish press photographer, Hilmi Şahenk, who passed away back in 1972. Hayrettin Baş saw his own childhood photo in Hürriyet and realized it was him. The whole story in Turkish here
He posed again at the same street:
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