Click here - to use the wp menu builder

LX World Press Photo Award

March 2, 2017

667

An Assassination in Turkey by Burhan Özbilici

Must read

DIPLOMAT MAGAZINE “For diplomats, by diplomats” Reaching out the world from the European Union First diplomatic publication based in The Netherlands Founded by members of the diplomatic corps on June 19th, 2013. Diplomat Magazine is inspiring diplomats, civil servants and academics to contribute to a free flow of ideas through an extremely rich diplomatic life, full of exclusive events and cultural exchanges, as well as by exposing profound ideas and political debates in our printed and online editions.

The winners of the 60th World Press Photo awards have been announced, and can be viewed as a gallery hereunder:

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2017/contemporary-issues/amber-bracken

The jury of the 60th annual photo contest chose the image by Associated Press Turkish photographer Burhan Özbilici as the World Press Photo of the Year. More precisely the picture wherein Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a 22-year-old off-duty police officer, assassinated the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, H.E. Andrey Karlov, at an art exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, on 19 December 2016. He wounded three other people before being killed by officers in a shootout.

For further information:

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2017

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2017/world-press-photo-year/burhan-ozbilici