Turkish photojournalists choose best photos of 2017

The Turkish Photojournalists Association (TFMD) announced the results of its 2017 photo contest on Monday. The contest held for the 32nd time received nearly 3,000 entries, and 29 photos and seven photo series were chosen for the top awards.

Best Press Photo of the Year / Best News Photo of the Year: Citizens protesting the July 15, 2016 coup attempt jump to their deaths into the underpass in front of the Turkish General Staff headquarters in capital Ankara to avoid being crushed by the putchists' tanks. (Ozancan Doğan / Depo Photos)

Best News Photo of the Year – 2nd

Turkish Coast Guard units come to the rescue of a group of migrants, whose boat capsized at the Aegean Sea off the coast of Didim district of Aydın province. (Emin Mengüarslan / Anadolu Agency)

Best News Photo of the Year – 3rd

An off-duty special forces police officer tries to prevent and persuade pro-coup soldiers at the Taksim Square in Istanbul. (Sedat Suna / EPA)

Best News Photo of the Year – mention award

Families wait for their relatives in front of the Atatürk Airport after the June 29 Daesh attack which killed 42. (Emrah Gürel / AP Photo)

Best Sports Photo of the Year

Trabzonspor defender Salih Dursun shows a red card to referee Deniz Ateş Bitnel to protest his teammate being sent off during the match against Galatasaray, on Feb. 21, 2017. (Oğuz Yörük / Sabah Newspaper)

Best Sports Photo of the Year – 2nd

A jockey and his horse crash into an obstacle at the Showjumping Tournament of the Prime Ministry Cup, and Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry Cup. (Ali Atmaca / Anadolu Agency)

Best Sports Photo of the Year – 3rd

Galatasaray defender Semih Kaya and Medipol Başakşehir forward Mehmet Batdal vie for the ball. (Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu / Anadolu Agency)

Best Sports Photo of the Year – mention award

Trabzonspor defender Salih Dursun tries to grab the red card from referee Deniz Ateş Bitnel. (Fatih Erdoğdu / AMK Newspaper)

Best Portrait Photo of the Year

Gülnaz Serin, sister of police officer Adem Serin who was killed in PKK terror group's Dec. 10, 2016 Beşiktaş attack which killed 46 people, looks at her brother's coffin during the funeral ceremony on Dec. 12, 2016, in Gaziantep. (Kerem Kocalar / Anadolu Agency)

Best Portrait Photo of the Year – 2nd

Afghan woman Reza Gül, whose nose was cut off by her husband, poses after the nose implant surgery carried out in Turkey. (Halil Sağırkaya / Anadolu Agency)

Best Portrait Photo of the Year – 3rd

A Syrian girl named Marwan resumes her school life with the scars of war on her face. (Oğuz Yeter / Milliyet Newspaper)

Best Portrait Photo of the Year – mention award

Asena Çelik, a ballet artist from Ankara State Opera and Ballet, stretches before her performance. (Haşim Kılıç / Hürriyet Newspaper)

Best Portrait Photo of the Year – mention award

A child looks closely into the camera's lens at the "Lathmar Holi" festival in Mathura region of northern India. (Metin Aktaş / Anadolu Agency)

Best Politics Photo of the Year

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan leaves in his official car after visiting the blast scene in Beşiktaş near Vodafone Stadium in Istanbul, Dec. 12, 2016. (Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman / Anadolu Agency)

Best Politics Photo of the Year – 2nd

Turkish lawmakers react to the bombing of the Parliament during the July 15 coup attempt. (Yavuz Özden / Milliyet Newspaper)

Best Politics Photo of the Year – 3rd

Thousands of people greet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he arrived at the Atatürk Airport to depart from Istanbul to Ankara on the morning of July 16, 2016. (Hüseyin Aldemir / Reuters)

Best Politics Photo of the Year – mention award

Main opposition Republican People's Party Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is escorted to a safe zone following the PKK attack on his convoy in northeastern Artvin province, Aug. 25, 2016. (Muhammed Kaçar / Doğan News Agency)

Best Daily Life Photo of the Year

27-year-old Mamun Halid Nasır, who lost his eyes, hearing, right-hand fingers and two legs in a barrel bomb bombardment by regime aircraft in Syria's Idlib, hugs his five-year-old daughter Gözyaşı. (Cem Genco / Anadolu Agency)

Best Daily Life Photo of the Year – 2nd

Syrian, Afghan and Pakistani refugees try to cool off at Menekşe Beach in Istanbul's Florya district. (Can Erok / Doğan News Agency)

Best Daily Life Photo of the Year – 3rd

A woman, whose house was destroyed in clashes between the PKK terrorist group and Turkish security forces during the 78-day-long curfew in Cizre district of southeastern Turkey, carries her belongings. (Emin Özmen / Agence Le Journal)

Best Daily Life Photo of the Year – mention award

An old woman uses a manually operated cable-car – a common sight in the rugged Black Sea region – to cross a 70-meter deep valley in Rize province, northeastern Turkey. (Göktürk Fırat / Ihlas News Agency)

Best Environment and Nature Photo of the Year

Fire rages on in a pine forest in Sarnıç neighborhood of Izmir's Gaziemir district, on Aug. 03, 2016. (Mahmut Serdar Alakuş / Anadolu Agency)

Best Environment and Nature Photo of the Year – 2nd

Strong waves pound the shores of Portugal's surfing resort town of Nazare on the Atlantic coast. (Burak Doğansoysal / Freelance)

Best Environment and Nature Photo of the Year – 3rd

Two shepherds herd their animals in Kıyıdüzü village of Tatvan district, Bitlis province, eastern Turkey. (Ali İhsan Öztürk / Anadolu Agency)

Best Environment and Nature Photo of the Year – mention award

Rainclouds cumulate in the sky in eastern Van province. (Sedat Suna / EPA)

Special Awards / Sebahattin Yılmaz - Cem Emir Special Award

Pro-coup soldiers' shadows cast on passengers in Atatürk Airport as they start leaving the airport upon seeing the coup attempt will fail. (Ismail Coşkun / Ihlas News Agency)

Special Awards / Spor Toto Sports Picture Mention Award

Galatasaray midfielder Yasin Öztekin celebrates his goal against Gaziantepspor by hugging police officers on duty amid a solidarity campaign with the police after the Beşiktaş attack, in which 38 police officers were killed. (Adem Kabayel / Hürriyet Newspaper)

Special Awards / Mustafa Pekcan Special Award

People gather by an injured woman, who fell into the underpass in front of the Turkish General Staff headquarters in capital Ankara to avoid being crushed by putchists' tanks during July 15, 2016 coup attempt, covered with the Turkish flag. (Necati Savaş / Cumhuriyet Newspaper)

Special Awards / Rafet Hüner Special Award

Some 1,100 students of a school in western Manisa province are wearing masks of deceased Sgt. Ömer Halisdemir, who was credited for being one of the key figures in preventing the July 15 coup attempt by killing one of the key pro-coup generals. The school was named after Halisdemir. (Sadık Cangel / Ihlas News Agency)

Best Photo News Series of the Year

Civilians fleeing from Daesh's atrocities and anti-Daesh operations leave Mosul and cross the Tigris River. (Emin Özmen / Agence Le Journal)

Best Photo News Series of the Year

Best Photo Interview of the Year

The photo interview titled "Cezaevinin mahpus kuşları" (The imprisoned birds of prison), which focuses on birds fed by inmates in prisons along with their daily life, was awarded the best photo interview of the year. (Kutup Dalgakıran / Sabah Newspaper)

Best Photo Interview of the Year

TFMD Honor Award

Associated Press photojournalist Burhan Özbilici was awarded with TFMD Honor Award for his photos taken during the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov.