Anadolu Agency Photos of the Year voting starts

ANKARA (AA) - Anadolu Agency on Saturday submitted a range of photographs marking the essential events of 2018 to a vote for this year’s Photos of the Year awards.

Photos will be selected across three categories from Anadolu Agency photojournalists or correspondents who have had an impact on the Turkish and world agendas.

Anadolu Agency's Photos of the Year was first held in 2012.

This year, 50 images selected from over 700,000 photographs shot in different parts of the world -- such as Syria, Palestine, Russia, Germany and Spain -- were put to a vote in news, life and sports categories with Turkish and English captions.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliamentary Spokesman Binali Yildirim, ministers, officials and sportsmen are also expected to participate in the voting.

There are 18 photographs in the news category, 15 in life category, and 17 in sports category.

Last year, over 260,000 people participated in the voting.

This year's voting will continue till Dec. 31 at www.aa.com.tr.