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The public search for a spouse in Türkiye: İzdivaç advertisements in 1918 and marriage-oriented social media posts in 2025

This article compares two sets of spouse-seeking texts from Türkiye: matrimonial advertisements published in the Ottoman Turkish periodical İzdivaç in 1918 and marriage-oriented posts shared on Facebook and Instagram in 2025. The aim is not to trace a continuous line of change ac...