Bülent Kılıç

Bülent Kılıç (born 1979 ) is a Turkish photojournalist currently employed by the Agence France-Press (AFP) as the photo manager for Turkey.

Journalistic career In the early 2000s he was a journalist for the local Turkish press, later specializing as a photographer. In Ukraine, he covered the Ukrainian revolution, the search for survivors of the Malaysia airlines plane crash and the refugees fleeing the clashes between the pro-Russian militias and the Ukrainian military.

Photographic style According to his own statement, his work has been influenced by the photographers Yuri Kozyrev and Robert Capa. 2015 1st in the section Spot News at the World Press Photo of the Year awards for his photograph of a wounded girl surrounded by Turkish police in the aftermath of the funeral of Berkin Evan and also the 3rd prize for his photograph documenting air strikes on militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).