Murad Sezer is a Turkish

Turkey

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 photographer. He moved to Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 as a child. He has a journalism B.A. from the Istanbul University

Istanbul University

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 and he built a career as a sports photographer in the Turkish media 10 years before he joined Associated Press

Associated Press

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 in 1996. He was part of Associated Press team that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography

Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography

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 in 2005 with his photo of US Marines praying over a Marine killed while fighting insurgent strongholds in Fallujah

Fallujah

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 (other people from the team were Bilal Hussein

Bilal Hussein

Bilal Hussein is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Fallujah, Iraq who had been detained by U.S. forces, suspected of aiding insurgents in Iraq. He was handed over to face charges in the Iraqi Central Court, reportedly over the circumstances of his photos supplied by the U.S. military...

, Karim Kadim, Brennan Linsley, Jim MacMillan, Samir Mizban, Khalid Mohammed

Khalid Mohammed

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, John B. Moore

John B. Moore

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, Muhammad Muheisen, Anja Niedringhaus and Mohammed Uraibi). In April 2009 he joined Reuters News as chief photographer for Turkey.