Anadolu Ajansi 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 Ajansi, one of the exceptional institutions with its millions of news texts, images, and videos that are considered as historical documents, has completed its preparations for the “AA Archive” project, which it has been working on for a long time.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 Ajansi’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 Ajansi 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.
UK hikes policy rate to almost 15-year high The Bank of England on Thursday hiked its policy interest rate by 25 basis points to nearly a 15-year high of 4.25%.
Seven of the Monetary Policy Committee’s nine members backed the move, while two voted for keeping the rate unchanged, the central bank said in a statement.
The borrowing costs have now reached the highest level since October 2008.
This is the bank’s 11th consecutive rate hike since December 2021 to tame high level of inflation rates, which surged to 10.4% in February.
“The MPC will continue to monitor closely indications of persistent inflationary pressures, including the tightness of labour market conditions and the behaviour of wage growth and services inflation. If there were to be evidence of more persistent pressures, then further tightening in monetary policy would be required,” the bank added.
Source: Anadolu Agency