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Evacuating a gas victim on Beyazıt Square

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Object:Evacuating a gas victim on Beyazıt Square
Description:A team of people in gas masks are transporting a man on a stretcher in the direction of the camera on Beyazıt meydanı. Some are in uniform, others in protective clothing with Turkish Red Crescent brassards. The man on the stretcher is being given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. In the background, a large cloud of smoke is drifting through the alley.
Comment:The photograph was shot in the context of two articles that appeared in Cumhuriyet in August 1939 reporting on military defence operations against air raids and chemical weapons attacks. Cumhuriyet covered the military exercise in great detail, announcing which action was to take place in which part of town and at what time. The exercise on Beyazıt Square envisaged that an enemy squadron had dropped red and white gas bombs. Military personnel were to intervene, render first aid to the injured and transport them to medical facilities.
Series:https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:siba.3102
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Date:1939-08
Location:Istanbul, Beyazıt, Fatih
Country:Turkey (contemporary)
Turkey (historical)
Type:Photographic negative
Creator:Görgüç, Namık or Giz, Selahattin
Keywords:700 Armed Forces
700 Armed Forces > 701 Military Organization
700 Armed Forces > 702 Recruitment and Training
720 War
410 Tools and Appliances > 411 Weapons
500 Water, Air, and Space Transportation > 507 Aviation
Bibliography:Dün sabah yapılan hava taarruzu tecrübelerinden muhtelif intıbalar. Cumhuriyet, 20 August 1939, 1, 7. – Hava hücumundan korunmak için. Cumhuriyet, 24 August 1939, 7.
Copyright:Yapı Kredi bank
Archive:Yapı Kredi tarih arşivi, Istanbul (Collection Selahattin Giz), Inv. No.: 4/0127F
Editors:Joël László, Nataša Mišković
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