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For four months, AFP's journalists in Gaza have been risking their lives to cover a war that has shaken the world. They have all had to flee their homes, working without respite in the shadow of death in a territory they are not allowed to leave. #AFP [1/3]

VIDEO: The afternoon prayer has just ended in a mosque in Istanbul, and the imam gives up his place to a sports instructor, where a fitness project has been rolled out since January. 🎥 Ionut Iordachescu 📸 Yasin Akgül #AFPVertical

RIP Dmitry Zaks A man far better than most. A fiercely loyal friend, a dedicated journalist, and a beautifuly strange human who drank more Cola than I thought physically possible.

Delightful read. A Stork, a Fisherman and Their Unlikely Bond Enchant Turkey. The stork that keeps coming back, for thirteen years, to his friend the fisherman's boat. Ben Hubbard safak timur nytimes.com/2024/03/30/wor…

Thousands celebrated on the streets of Istanbul on Sunday night after local elections gave a second term in office to opposition figure Ekrem Imamoglu, while his CHP party dealt a surprising blow across the country to the long rule of president Erdogan. *shot for #AFP*

🗳️ La Turquie, dominée depuis plus de deux décennies par le président Recep Tayyip Erdogan et son parti, s'est réveillée ce lundi à un "tournant" de l'aveu même du chef de l'Etat après une victoire historique de l'opposition aux élections municipales #AFPVertical ⤵️

Fire tears through Istanbul apartment block, killing 29. Eight people were arrested over the blaze that began in a basement where builders had been renovating a nightclub u.afp.com/5M6d

VIDEO: Its fans swear it can cure heart palpitations, dodgy stomachs and even impotence. Yet every year hundreds of people end up in hospital after gorging themselves on Turkey's "mad honey". 🎥 Ionut Iordachescu 📸 Yasin Akgul #AFPVertical

VIDEO: The tea-growing province of Rize in Turkey's northeast has been repeatedly hit by major landslides over the last 50 years and it is going to get worse due to climate change

VIDEO: In northeast Turkey, makeshift cable cars are essential for locals to harvest tea leaves in steep valleys inaccessible by car or tractor. But a string of deaths and hair-raising accidents has sent a shudder of fear through the community.

"Fear brews in Turkey's landslide-plagued tea hills" by Ionut Iordachescu. youtube.com/watch?v=rinidS…

Journaliste AFP, Arman Soldin a raconté à Tatiana Benhamou son rapport ambigu à son métier, entre l’adrénaline et la peur d’être sur le terrain. Peu de temps après, en mai 2023, il perdait la vie en Ukraine 🕊 ➡ Son témoignage : arteradio.com/son/61686498/a…

VIDEO: Early July marks the beginning of the "Kirkpinar", a centuries-old oil wrestling festival in Edirne, north-west Turkey. A traditional Turkish form of wrestling, the sport sees athletes compete while doused in olive oil.

VIDEO: Super Blue Moon rises behind Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. The Super Blue Moon is a combination of two events, a super Moon, when the Moon is closest to Earth, and a blue Moon - the third full Moon in a season of four and usually happens once every 10 years

After more than 30 years on air, Istanbul's Apaçık Radyo falls silent after the station was shut down by Turkish authorities. our AFP News Agency report: ibtimes.com/turkey-shuts-d… pics by Ozan Kose video by Ionut Iordachescu

🇲🇩 Deux semaines après la victoire sur le fil du "oui" au référendum sur l'UE, la Moldavie a confirmé dimanche sa trajectoire européenne en reconduisant sa présidente Maia Sandu à l'issue d'une élection tendue sur fond de soupçons d'ingérences russes #AFPVertical ⤵️

VIDEO: Pokrovsk residents evacuate as Russian forces close in on eastern Ukrainian city. Residents of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, are evacuating as Russian forces advance towards the strategic city. The looming fall of the vital energy and transport hub would represent the

The fall of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine would cap a year of mounting military and political setbacks for Kyiv. Our dispatch from the ghost town for AFP News Agency 📝 Jonathan Brown 📷 Roman Pilipey 📹 Ionut Iordachescu france24.com/en/live-news/2…

"It's the front line now. They're on one side, and we're on the other," 72-year-old Lyubov Voronova said of the Oskil river flowing by her home in east Ukraine. 📝 Jonathan Brown 📷 Roman Pilipey 🎥 Ionut Iordachescu Our dispatch for AFP News Agency: france24.com/en/live-news/2…

"We wanted to live. We had no combat experience. We were just ordinary working people from villages," one Ukrainian serviceman, who fled but later returned to battle told AFP News Agency. 📝Jonathan Brown 📷Roman Pilipey 📷Ionut Iordachescu france24.com/en/live-news/2…