İstanbul in 1919

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A dear friend, Tuncay Yavuz,  sometimes shares his own finding in digging old British newspapers. This is a photo of the old city taken from a plane.

His thread:

Here is another one, present tense from a different Twitter user:

by @ercanarslana via https://twitter.com/EsmaCakirRoma/status/1108424178120753152?s=03

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