’90s nostalgia is all over Turkish social media.

It isn’t a minority who misses the old days when Turkey was competing in Eurovision, Huysuz Virjin had her own TV show; the secular days when it was normal to drink alcohol on broadcast TV.

But was Turkey in the 1990s really more free, happy and innocent?

Could we have a memory about the ’90s that is too photoshopped?

How did the original picture look?

Turkey in the 1990s: The past that never was is out now.