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AFP's Bulent Kilic chosen as «Photographer of the year 2014» by The Guardian magazine
The Guardian picture desk has chosen Turkish photographer Bulent Kilic, of AFP, as the hotly contested agency photographer of the year. Here’s a look back over 2014 through his lens, showing unrest in Ukraine, the refugee crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border and the harrowing MH17 air crash.
Kiev, Ukraine, 22 February
People carry the coffin of a man killed during clashes, as they gather at Independence Square after protesters took control of Kiev’s charred city centre. They also seized Yanukovych’s lavish residence, which had been abandoned, on a day of dramatic twists and turns.
Sanliurfa, Turkey, 23 September
A Syrian Kurdish woman crosses the border between Syria and Turkey.
Donetsk, Ukraine, 26 July
Members of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service search for bodies in a field near the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in the rebel-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine. The airliner was believed shot down by a missile, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, killing all 298 passengers and crew.