23 March 2023•Update: 24 March 2023
ANKARA
Anadolu Ajansı was founded on April 6, 1920 with the instructions of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Türkiye. The agency today stands out among the world's important news agencies with its more than 100 years of journalism expertise and quick reporting of breaking developments.
Anadolu Ajansı, one of the exceptional institutions with its millions of news texts, images, and videos that are considered as historical documents, has completed its preparations for the "AA Archive" project, which it has been working on for a long time.
To make the project sustainable and to carry it out within a set of guidelines, the Visual Archive Desk was established within the Visual News Department.
The new desk will work to make Anadolu Ajansı's powerful historical archive an easily accessible visual resource for future generations, to create new values from the archive with qualified selections, and to draw attention to the visual content in the archive through various projects.
To make it easy to access the images within the Visual Archive Desk, a systematical and comprehensive study was started to create photo captions, image transcripts, and keywords of the contents.
The visual content produced from the beginning of the 1900s to the present will be accessible at "anadoluimages.com" with Turkish and English subtitles and it will meet the needs of both corporate and individual users.
In the collections area, users of "anadoluimages.com" are also offered specific selections from recent developments and archive materials of significant historical events.
Anadolu Ajansı also aims to make its mark on social media with its high-quality and powerful archive content.
It targets to provide the public with a powerful and authentic content about Türkiye's visual memory through "@AAarsiv" social media accounts.
