We bring the memory of the past
together with today's technology.
Wikilala is a digital research platform that brings together the written cultural heritage from the Ottoman era to the Republic, letting you reach the knowledge inside newspapers, journals, books and historical documents quickly and easily.
During the 57th Library Week, Wikilala was awarded the "Innovative Initiative of the Year" prize by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
30 March 2021A digital gateway to millions of pages of cultural memory.
Newspapers, journals, books and documents published over centuries are among the most important sources of our history and social memory.
However, much of this vast accumulation was not easily accessible to researchers: it was written in different alphabets, scattered across physical collections and not suited to full-text search.
Wikilala brings this body of knowledge together digitally, making historical sources searchable and rediscoverable.
A growing digital
cultural collection
Every day we bring a larger part of Türkiye's written memory into the digital world with new publications and collections.
We don't just digitise the past, we make it searchable.
01 — Research from a single place
Discover newspapers, journals, books and other historical sources on a single platform.
02 — Full-text search
Reach the concepts you are looking for within thousands of publications and millions of pages in seconds.
03 — Advanced filtering
Narrow your research by date, publication, author, category, city, language and other criteria.
04 — Discover new connections
Trace the same person, event or concept across different periods, publications and sources.
We bring Türkiye's written memory
together.
Wikilala unites a broad digital collection spanning different periods, publication types and research fields on a single platform.
Newspapers
Historical newspapers from different periods, from the Ottoman era to the Republic.
Explore NewspapersJournals
Periodicals carrying traces of literature, art, culture, science, humour and thought.
Explore JournalsBooks
Tens of thousands of digital works from different periods and disciplines.
Explore BooksFor everyone who researches.
Wikilala is built not only for historians, but for researchers from every discipline who need sources from the past.
Academics
Access to primary sources for scholarly work.
Students
Discovering historical sources for theses, articles and research projects.
Researchers
Following the traces of events, people and concepts through the past.
Writers
Researching past news, events and public debates.
Institutions
Offering their users a comprehensive digital collection of historical sources.
Our Mission
To bring Türkiye's written cultural heritage together with digital technologies, making knowledge produced in the past accessible, searchable and rediscoverable.
We aim to build a sustainable digital research infrastructure that lets researchers reach historical sources faster and more easily.
Our Vision
To be one of Türkiye's reference digital research platforms for discovering and studying the written heritage from the Ottoman era to the Republic.
We aim to contribute not only to preserving cultural heritage, but to researching it, understanding it and passing it on to future generations.
The knowledge you seek is one search away.
From newspapers to journals, from books to special collections, explore Türkiye's written memory.
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