Photographer who captured assassination...

27  2016-12-20 by ko_28

Bit of Googling on the name Burhan Ozbilici reveals that he's got a bit of a history covering intense, action-heavy news events:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/21/latest-official-attacker-wounded-near-israeli-embassy.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/syria-refugees-turkey-photos_n_5861070.html

http://www.gazettenet.com/Turkey-strikes-militants-in-Syria-4286849

seems a bit odd to have him covering a (supposed to be) dull art event, no? i mean, Ankara's not a huge city so maybe AP doesn't have a ton of photographers there, but I can't find any other "art events" he's covered...

3 comments

3  lolWiz 2016-12-20

His last published photo I can find before this mess was on November 22nd.

Ominous date.

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2016-11-22-EU--Turkey-Child%20Marriages/id-0aee4e9356af4a00bb3841f7a34a0565

2  powerhighfive 2016-12-20

Photogs are hungry, some are lucky. As they say "When in Turkey"

0  biteurtounge 2016-12-20

Gotta pay bills and document history.