Anadolu Agency's Best News Photos of 2013
12.12.2013

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd L) poses with Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani (2nd R), Kurdish singer Sivan Perwer who entered Turkey after 37 years (R) and siger Ibrahim Tatlises (L) in Diyarbakir Governorship building on November 16, 2013 in Diyarbakir, Turkey. 16/11/2013 (Kayhan Özer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Durmuş Genç

Fields and garden floors of some houses submerge due to the heavy railfall in Mugla province, Aegean Region, Turkey. 09/02/2013 (Durmuş Genç - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Sinan Yiter

Yemeni security force members and residents respond at the secene after a military aircraft crash into a building and killed 9, injured 15 in Yemeni capital Sanaa. 19/02/2012 (Sinan Yiter - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Evrim Aydın

German Chancellor Angela Merkel views during her Johannes Church visit in national park Goereme located in Turkey’s Nevsehir province in the Central Anatolia region. 25/02/2013 (Evrim Aydın - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Evrim Aydın

Jordanian King Abdullah II sheds tears as he visits Anitkabir, Ataturk’s mausoleum in Turkish capital Ankara. 05/03/2013 (Evrim Aydın - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Barışkan Ünal

Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gather around the Military Academy to see him for the last time following the announcement of his death as the body of Chavez was kept in the chapel of Military Academy in Caracas, Venezuela. 08/03/2013 (Barışkan Ünal - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Taner Aydin

An Israeli security force member burns during the clash broke out after Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in Jerusalem. 08/03/2013 (Taner Aydin - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Erhan Sevenler

Residents living in Saladin district of Aleppo pass through the fabric streched street to protect from snipers attacks in Syria. 10/03/2013 (Erhan Sevenler - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Erhan Sevenler

A Free Syrian Army member keeps guard in Aleppo, Syria. 10/03/2013 (Erhan Sevenler - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Sabri YILDIRIM

Vechettin Artan, 60, crosses the overflowing stream with the help of a rope to reach his doughter who was besieged at home by flood in Korkut town of Turkey’s Mus province. 18/03/2013 (Sabri YILDIRIM - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Erhan Sevenler

A Free Syrian Army (FSA) member keeps guard amongst the debris in Saladin district of Aleppo in Syria. 19/03/2013 (Erhan Sevenler - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Aykut Ünlüpınar

Turkish commands getting 3-week training program at Kayseri Airborne (parachute) commando regimentbale out. 19/03/2013 (Aykut Ünlüpınar - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Ensar Özdemir

Police intervene a man holding a knife to damage himself in front of the governorship building in Turkey’s Malatya province in Eastern Anatolia region. 07/04/2013 (Ensar Özdemir - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Müslüm Etgü

Smoke rises after a fire breaks out in custom house during the clash took places between Syrians and the security forces at the Akcakale border gate in Sanliurfa, Turkey. 02/05/2013 (Müslüm Etgü - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Joerg Koch

The main suspect under arrest, Beate Zschaepe, 38 (C) is accused of being a member of the terrorist neo-Nazi cell, the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which killed 10 people, among them 8 Turkish immigrants, between the years 2000 and 2007. 06/05/2013 (Joerg Koch - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu

Israeli security forces disallow Palestinian Muslims to enter Al Aqsa Mosque for Al Quds Day in Jerusalem. 08/05/2013 (Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Cem Genco

Done Kuvvet, 72, who lost her daughter and granddaughter in twin car bomb attacks in Hatay’s Reyhanli town reacts at the scene of the blast. 11/05/2013 (Cem Genco - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Bülent Doruk

Besiktas fans throw bootles to the police before the match between Besiktas – Genclerbirligi in front of the Inonu Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. 11/05/2013 (Bülent Doruk - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Kayhan Özer

US President Barack Obama gives a dinner in honor of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Red Room of the White House in Washington. 16/05/2013 (Kayhan Özer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu

Israeli soldiers exit as they guard near the hole on the Israeli border security wall, named by the Palestinians as the wall of shame, which was broken by the Palestinians in West Bank. 17/05/2013 (Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Stringer

One killed, 24 people were wounded in a hot air balloon crash after colliding mid-air with another balloon in the central tourist destination of Cappadocia in central Turkey. 20/05/2013 (Stringer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Burak Akbulut

Groups supporting the movement at Gezi Park of Taksim headed to Taksim Square from Istiklal Avenue. Police intervened the group with water cannons and tear gas. 01/06/2013 (Burak Akbulut - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Bülent Doruk

Two protestors setting barricade on street throw firework to the Turkish riot police during the Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, Turkey. 01/06/2013 (Bülent Doruk - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Volkan Furuncu

The police interferes the group staging an unpermitted demonstration for Taksim in Ankara, with water cannons and tear gas as the group throw stones at police. 01/06/2013 (Volkan Furuncu - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

Turkish police detained number of protestors after intervening protestor group in Istanbul’s Besiktas district. 04/06/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Serhat Çağdaş

Heavy fuel oil tanker stopped after skidding and hitting 15 meters long retaining wall. Heavy oil tanker was rescued after 5 hours of hard work. 03/06/2013 (Serhat Çağdaş - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Jens Schlueter

Flood victims row their boat on a flooded street of Bernburg. Thousands of people in the city of eastern Germany had to leave their homes after floods continued to rise. 07/06/2013 (Jens Schlueter - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Bülent Doruk

An engineering vehicle set on fire and a protester resisting against riot police in Taksim Square, Istanbul in the 15th day of Taksim Gezi Park protests. 11/06/2013 (Bülent Doruk - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

Mother of Omar Ahmad en-Nirbi (23) killed in the clashes in Saladin region of Aleppo cries at the bedside of her son in Aleppo, Syria. 15/06/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Kayhan Özer

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech to the huge crowd at Kazlicesme Rally "Respect to National Will" in Istanbul. 16/06/2013 (Kayhan Özer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Ahmed Ismail

The ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's case about charges of killing protesters continues in Egypt. His sons Gamal Mubarak (L) and Alaa Mubarak (R) also face charges of corruption. 20/06/2013 (Ahmed Ismail - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Muhammed Elshamy

Supporters of Mohammed Morsi gathering at Rabiatul Adawiyah square hold a protest following the military coup in Egypt. 04/07/2013 (Muhammed Elshamy - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Stringer

Supporters of Mohammed Morsi gathering at Rabiatul Adawiyah kept protesting night and day. 07/07/2013 (Stringer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Stringer

Free Syrian Army carry out “Fidelity for Salahaddin Martyrs” as to take hold the entire Salahaddin district of Aleppo. 08/07/2013 (Stringer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Midhat Poturoviç

The identified bodies of those who massacred during Bosnian war in Srebrenica arrives in Potocari to the to the old battery factory. The bodies are burried following the massacre memorial. 10/07/2013 (Midhat Poturoviç - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

A member of a female fighting unit also known as ‘’Ummu al Muminin Aysa’’ going on to the front lines along with FSA (Free Syrian Army) aims from a hole in Aleppo. 11/07/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Nour Jaidi

Three people killed in suicide bomb attack on African Union troops convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia. 12/07/2013 (Nour Jaidi - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Shaam News Network

Khaliddiya district and Khalid Bin Valid Mosque in Homs town of Syria suffer extensive damage as a result of the howitzers and rockets. 25/07/2013 (Shaam News Network - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mosaab Elshamy

120 dies as Egyptian security forces interferes the anti-coup demonstrators with real bullets on 27 July morning at Rabiatul Adawiyah square. 27/07/2013 (Mosaab Elshamy - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Berk Özkan

A group of protestors seeking to pass the security barricade around the Silivri prison campus during Ergenekon trial try to protect themselves against the watercannon in Istanbul, Turkey. 05/08/2013 (Berk Özkan - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Stringer

People walk into the flood waters after heavy rains casused deaths of 10 people in capital Khartoum in Sudan. 05/08/2013 (Stringer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mohamed Garnousi

163 people died in the Egyptian security forces interventions at Nahda Square where anti-coup demonstrations continue in Cairo, Egypt. 14/08/2013 (Mohamed Garnousi - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mohamed Hossam

An Egyptian woman cries near bodies at the Iman Mosque located at Rab'a al-Adaweya Square following the intervention of Egyptian security forces on anti-coup demonstrators in Cairo. 15/08/2013 (Mohamed Hossam - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mustafa Öztürk

The relatives of those who lost their lives as a result of the intervention of the security forces on anti-coup demonstrators in Cairo receive the corpses from the forensic medicine institution of Cairo. 15/08/2013 (Mustafa Öztürk - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Veli Gürgah

People try to reach those who are under the debris after the air strike by Asad forces killedthirty people and injured tens of others in Aleppo, Syria. 16/08/2013 (Veli Gürgah - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mohamed Hossam

An anti-coup protestor reacts near his deadly injured friends on a track after the security forces and a group of ''baltagias'' attacked anti-coup demonstrators near 15th May Bridge and 6th October Bridge at Cairo's Ramses Square in Egypt. 16/08/2013 (Mohamed Hossam - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mostafa Darwish

Anti-coup demonstrators carry an injured man by motorbike after the security forces intervened the protestors in front of Azbakia Police Station in Cairo, Egypt. 16/08/2013 (Mostafa Darwish - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Muhammed Elshamy

Anti-coup protestor looks behind the barricade during police intervention at Cairo's Ramses Square in Egypt. 18/08/2013 (Muhammed Elshamy - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Cemal Esmuhammed

Three Pakistani men carry a motorbike by a horse drawn vehicle into the flood waters after the mansoon rains, which effected negatively over three hundered thousand people and killed 108, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. 18/08/2013 (Cemal Esmuhammed - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Salih Mahmud Leyla

Syrian opposition members move towards inside the holes reamed on the walls of houses touching each other, fight back by hand made rockets in the old city of Aleppo as heavy conflicts between Assad's forces and oppositions go. 23/08/2013 (Salih Mahmud Leyla - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Murat Kaynak

Turkish Premier Erdogan greets people with the 'Rabaa sign' after the Friday prayer at al-Aqsa mosque in Turkey's capital Ankara. 23/08/2013 (Murat Kaynak - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Cafer BALIK

Three dead bodies of miners were found after a long searching process following the Sirnak mine collapse in Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province. 03/09/2013 (Cafer BALIK - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Halil Sağırkaya

Even though metro workers are rarely working on the ground, they spend most of their time underground while working. 04/09/2013 (Halil Sağırkaya - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Ali Kemal ATİK

Tornado touchdown 100 meters away the coast in Rize on Blacksea, Turkey. 05/09/2013 (Ali Kemal ATİK - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu

Israeli police intervene Palestinian worshippers at Aqsa Mosque following the Friday prayer. 06/09/2013 (Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Muammer Tan

Police intervened the group of demonstrators gathered at the A-4 entrance of Ankara's Middle East Technical University (ODTU) , protesting against the road construction which is planned to construct a new road through ODTU campus area. 07/09/2013 (Muammer Tan - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mahmut Serdar Alakuş

Turkish riot police intervene demonstrators with a tear gas during a protest against a government project, a mosque-djemevicombination in Ankara, Turkey. 08/09/2013 (Mahmut Serdar Alakuş - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Salih Mahmud Leyla

The opposition groups in Syria keep on their attacks at the rurals of Homs and Hama cities of Syria against Assad forces while the ammunition shipment and soldier deploy are also held by the groups mainly from Aleppo and the other cities as well. 13/09/2013 (Salih Mahmud Leyla - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Erdal Türkoğlu

The wreckage of the Syrian helicopter, which was shot down by Turkish fighter jets that continued border breach of 2 kilometres into the Turkish land, found. Some locals collected the scrap parts of the helicopter wreckage. 17/09/2013 (Erdal Türkoğlu - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mohamed Hossam

Egyptian security forces hold a military operation at Kerdassa town of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Major General Nabil Farag has lost his life as a result of the military operation. 19/09/2013 (Mohamed Hossam - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Stringer

At least 81 people were killed and 145 others wounded in twin suicide bombings at the All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan. 22/092013 (Stringer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Oktay Çilesiz

Besiktas football team fans enter the pitch as the clocks were showing extra time 90+3 and clash with security forces during the Turkish Super League soccer match between Besiktas and Galatasaray at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. 22/09/2013 (Oktay Çilesiz - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Eyad Al Baba

Gaza tunnel beneath the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah city destroyed by Egypt army to prevent smuggling into the Gaza City, the blockaded Palestinian territory. 13/10/2013 (Eyad Al Baba - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Stringer

Al-Azhar University student against coup stage an anti-coup rally in Cairo, Egypt.Later Egyptian security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters. 20/10/2013 (Stringer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Sefa Eyi

Firefighter jumps from one roof to another in Ordu, Turkey. A firefighter, climbed to the roof of burning building and due to the short ladderlength , waited there for the backup for a while and later escaped from the fire by jumping from the burning roof to the next building. 02/11/2013 (Sefa Eyi - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Essam Abdelrahman

Egyptian security guards intervene and detain scores of Morsi supporters who gathered in Alexandria to denounce Morsi's trial in Egypt. 04/11/2013 (Essam Abdelrahman - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

Haiyan, possibly the most powerful typhoon on record, killed thousands of people upon hitting the Philippines, hundred of thousands flee and houses are blown to pieces. 15/11/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

Tacloban is struggling to find food and clean water and also trying to recover from the ruin and devastation caused by the storms which caused catastrophic damage throughout central Philippines. 15/11/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Aykut Ünlüpınar

A Filipino man sits amonst the ruins in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city in Philippines on November 15, 2013. Tacloban is struggling to recover from the ruin and devastation caused by the storms which caused catastrophic damage throughout central Philippines. 15/112013 (Aykut Ünlüpınar - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Aykut Ünlüpınar

A Filipino child stands at the mass graveside as the workers take the bodies into the mass grave on November 16, 2013 in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city in Philippines. 15/11/2013 (Aykut Ünlüpınar - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Kayhan Özer

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd L) poses with Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani (2nd R), Kurdish singer Sivan Perwer who entered Turkey after 37 years (R) and siger Ibrahim Tatlises (L) in Diyarbakir Governorship building on November 16, 2013 in Diyarbakir, Turkey. 16/11/2013 (Kayhan Özer - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

A Filipino child stands at the mass graveside as the workers take the bodies into the mass grave on November 16, 2013 in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city in Philippines. 16/11/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

Airview of Tacloban city of Philippines aftermath the super typhoon Haiyan on November 18, Philippines. 18/11/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Mohammed Elshaiky

A state of emergency is imposed and all military personnel are summoned to their units as a result of the clashes between the army and militants forces in Benghazi, Libya. 25/11/2013 (Mohammed Elshaiky - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Onur Çoban

Ukrainian protesters smash Vladimir Lenin statue with sledgehammer after pull down the statue in Besarabsky Square of Kiev, Ukraine. 08/12/2013 (Onur Çoban - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Burak Akbulut

The anti-government protests in Bangkok continue outside Government House in Thailand. The protesters demand the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, claming that Yingluck's government is controlled by her brother, ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled in a military coup in 2006. He was accused of abusing his power and of fraud, and he left the country in 2008. 09/12/2013 (Burak Akbulut - Anadolu Agency)

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Fotoğraf: Volkan Furuncu

Jailed deputy and journalist Mustafa Balbay met his familiy as the court rules for him to be released. Balbay had been arrested on March 5, 2009 under Ergenekon case and following the Constitutional Court's decision on December 4, 2013, remarking that his detention exceeded the reasonable duration and his rights to stand for election were violated, he is released on December 9, 2013. 09/12/2013 (Volkan Furuncu - Anadolu Agency)

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