February 13, 2017
AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici has won the 2017 World Press Photo competition for his image of the assassin of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey.
In the photo, Mevlut Mert Altintas shouted after shooting Andrei Karlov at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, on December 19, last year.
Ozbilici’s winning photo was part of a series titled “An Assassination in Turkey” which also won the Spot News – Stories category, which he captured in the moments before and after Altintas, an off-duty policeman, drew a handgun and shot Karlov at the photo exhibition.
Ozbilici, talking to Al Jazeera from Amsterdam on Monday, said that he did his job by taking the photos, “standing for independent journalism”.
“I immediately understood that it was a very important, historical moment. I had to stand there as a journalist and do my work,” he said.
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