Emin Özmen A rocket hit a couple’s bedroom during the clashes between the PKK and the Turkish special military forces in Nusaybin Town. Fortunately, they were not home during the attack, but the house is half (...)
destroyed and they have no choice but to continue to live there. Nusaybin, Turkey. December 2015. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen People pose on the damaged military tank near Ankara Justice Palace in Sihhiye Square in Ankara; the day after a failed coup attempt by the Turkish military, during which 265 people died - includin (...)
g soldiers, police, and civilians. Ankara, Turkey. July 2016. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen People gather after the twin bombings in Ankara, during the funeral in Istanbul. Two powerful bombs exploded at a peace rally near the main train station in Ankara on October 10, killing 102 people (...)
and wounding hundreds of others in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory. Istanbul, Turkey. October 2015. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen A man sleeps with a Turkish flag on his face, on the field during break time at Justice March. Since last week, Turkey has been suffering one of the most intense heat waves in a century. In this he (...)
at, the thousands of people are taking part in shifts in the “Justice March” of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. They are struggling under the burning sun over their head and also the melting asphalt under their feet. Sakarya, Turkey. 2017. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Enver, 43, camel rider. "Two years ago, I had 4 tours in a day, now I have to be happy if I can do one tour in a week, there are no tourists here anymore." This region suffers a lot from the lack o (...)
f tourists. A lot of restaurants, hotels and touristic attractions are now closed and the historical sites are empty. Cappadocia. Goreme, Turkey. 2017. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Turkish Armed Forces dispatch a group of tanks to close of the Turkish - Syrian border, as the clashes near the border intensify between the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants and pr (...)
o-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces. Suruc, Turkey. October 2014. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen A street in Bustan Al- Kasser, a district controlled by the Free Syrian Army (center of Aleppo). A family walks near a makeshift barricade made from the wreckage of buses. These barriers are erecte (...)
d to obstruct the view of the regime's snipers. Aleppo is a city divided into two parts, one is under the control of the Free Syrian Army, the other under the control of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The inhabitants live in constant fear of snipers. Aleppo, Syria. 2015. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Boys sleep near the museum in Hierapolis, an ancient site in Pamukkale. Pamukkale is the remarkably well-preserved site of the ancient Roman city "Hierapolis." Rich Romans came here for the “water (...)
cure” from the mineral springs. The site was damaged by earthquakes over centuries but the remains are still very impressive. It is now a Unesco World Heritage site. Denizli, Turkey. 2017. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos