IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012

CULTURAL RELATIONSTARİHÎ FOTOĞRAFLARLATÜRK-AFGAN DOSTLUĞUTURKISH-AFGHAN FRIENDSHIPIN HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHSİstanbul, 2011This photograph album accompanied the exhibition on thesame theme which was organized by IRCICA in Kabul onthe occasion of the 1 March Turkish-Afghan FriendshipDay in 2011 marking the 90th anniversary of the FriendshipAgreement the two countries had signed in Moscow. Thealbum contains sixty-three photographs selected from thearchives of IRCICA, in their majority from the collectionof Fahreddin Türkkan Pasha, who, after his heroic defenseof Medina, where he took photographs of the Hejaz, wasappointed as Turkey’s first ambassador to Afghanistan in1921. Türkkan and his colleagues took photographs of eachstage of their travel to Kabul, where he continued to enlargehic collection of photographs of Afghanistan and of markingmoments in the two countries’ relations. The album hassections titled Diplomatic Relations, Architectural Heritage,and Views of Social Life.34 IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012