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Book - Olay 

Emin Ozmen 

Meaning ‘event’ or ‘incident’ in English, Olay is a powerful chronicle of a tumultuous decade in Turkey, tirelessly documented by Emin Özmen. This first book by Özmen is a retrospective of his work to date, recounting the photographer’s homeland in a ceaseless state of turmoil, hit by dramatic events including a failed coup d’état, popular uprisings, natural disasters, political purges, and ongoing military operations. This vivid and fast-paced series of black-and-white photographs is punctuated with moments of calm in the form of meditative colour images and personal texts.
The book includes an... 

Emin Ozmen 2013

TURKEY. Istanbul. May 2013. Gezi Park, where civil unrest began... 

Emin Ozmen 2014

TURKEY. Suruc. September 2014.
Turkish riot police use tear... 

Emin Ozmen 2018

Mersin, Turkey, 2018. Syrian kids play near a seasonal Syrian... 

Emin Ozmen 2020

TURKEY, Tekirdag, 2020. Turkish soldiers gathered for the funeral... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

TURKEY. Nusaybin. December 2015. A member of Civilian Protection... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

TURKEY. Nusaybin. December 2015. A barricade built by members... 

Emin Ozmen 2013

TURKEY. Istanbul. July 2013. Police officers block demonstrators... 

Emin Ozmen 2013

TURKEY. Istanbul. May 2013. During Gezi protests, police use... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

TURKEY, Istanbul, 2015. Turkish police use a water cannon to... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

Akcakale, Turkey, 2019. People hide near the wall as mortars... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Ankara. July 2016. People stand on a damaged military... 

Emin Ozmen 2023

TURKEY, Kahramanmaras. Febr 8, 2023. A car seen damaged on the... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

TURKEY. Gaziantep. 2019. The minaret of a sunken mosque emerges... 

Emin Ozmen 2014

TURKEY. Suruc. September 2014. Syrians wait for hours in a car... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

TURKEY. Siirt. September 2019. Animals in an abandoned house... 

Emin Ozmen 2018

TURKEY. Istanbul. 2018. Turkish soldiers stand in a cemetery... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Cizre. March 2016. Destruction in Cizre, southeastern... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

TURKEY. Bodrum. July 2015. Exhausted refugees who have just failed... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

TURKEY. December 2015. Portraits of Derik's Kurdistan Workers... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

Turkey, Izmir. 2016. Young Syrian refugees being check up by... 

Emin Ozmen 2012

TURKEY. Sanliurfa. October 2012. Men watch a house cordoned off... 

Emin Ozmen 2020

TURKEY, Mardin, 30 September 2020. Ali (14) stands near the family's... 

Emin Ozmen 2018

TURKEY. Diyarbakir. July 2019. Concrete blocks seen on a street... 

Emin Ozmen 2018

TURKEY. Istanbul. May 2018. People gather to show solidarity... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

TURKEY. Diyarbakir. March 2019. Lion sculptures block the front... 

Emin Ozmen 2017

TURKEY. Sakarya. July 2017. A man faints at the "March for Justice",... 

Emin Ozmen 2014

TURKEY. Soma. May 2014. After an explosion in a coal mine, the... 

Emin Ozmen 2014

TURKEY. Suruc. October 2014. Turkish Armed Forces dispatch a... 

Emin Ozmen 2020

TURKEY. Hasankeyf. 2020. A fire seen near a gas station after... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Sirnak. January 2016. Local officials are keeping the... 

Emin Ozmen 2020

Turkey, Edirne. 2020. A man sleeps on the ground as thousands... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Istanbul. November 2016. Turkish police beat a man during... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Istanbul. November 2016. Turkish police beat a man during... 

Emin Ozmen 2018

TURKEY, Kayseri 2018. People gathered in bus station shouts slogans... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Sirnak. October 2016. The parents of Kader Kulter, 13,... 

Emin Ozmen 2013

TURKEY. Istanbul, June 2013. Turkish police use tear gas to disperse... 

Emin Ozmen 2013

TURKEY. Istanbul. 2013. Exhausted police sleep on the ground... 

Emin Ozmen 2021

TURKEY. Mugla. November 2021. A detail view from a burned area... 

Emin Ozmen 2014

TURKEY. Suruc. September 2014. A Syrian family has just crossed... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

TURKEY. Cizre. August 2019. Families gather and mourn near the... 

Emin Ozmen 2021

TURKEY. Dalaman. August 2021. A fire rages in Dalaman over a... 

Emin Ozmen 2021

TURKEY. Dalaman. August 2021. A fire rages in Dalaman over a... 

Emin Ozmen 2023

TURKEY, Kahramanmaras. February 9, 2023. Thousands of earthquake... 

Emin Ozmen 2023

TURKEY, Malatya. 2023. Rescue workers carry a man on a collapsed... 

Emin Ozmen 2014

TURKEY. Suruc. September 2014. Smoke rises after an area was... 

Emin Ozmen 2020

Turkey, Edirne. 2020. Greek riot police stands near turkish Greek... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

TURKEY. Nusaybin. December 2015. A rocket hit a couple’s bedroom... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

TURKEY. Sivas. August 2019. Detail of a bloody sheet from a cow... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

TURKEY. Istanbul. October 2015. People gather after the twin... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Sirnak. January 2016. A funeral for a victim of the clashes... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

TURKEY. Akcakale. October 2019. A man sits, desperate and in... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

Akcakale, Turkey, 2019. A man desperately sits as mortars land... 

Emin Ozmen 2021

Turkey, Istanbul. 2021. People carry an injured woman, as riot... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

Akcakale, Turkey, 2019. People hide and watch near the border... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

Akcakale, Turkey, 2019. People in shock, flee from homes as... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY. Sirnak. January 2016. Families mourn during the funeral... 

Emin Ozmen 2015

Turkey, Bodrum. 2015. A boat full of migrants is illuminated... 

Emin Ozmen 2016

TURKEY, Sirnak, 2016. People gather for the funerals of 12 people... 

Emin Ozmen 2013

TURKEY, Hatay, 2013. People gathered as security forces collect... 

Emin Ozmen 2019

TURKEY, Yuksekova, 2019. A man walks in Cumhuriyet, a neighborhood... 
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