By Fatma Bulbul
ANKARA
Anadolu Agency has published three books of first-hand witness accounts by AA's field correspondents in the ‘AA Was There’ series.
The books – "War, Blockade, Resistance: Gaza"; "The Incomplete Revolution: Egypt"; and "The Orphaned Nation: Syria" – will appear in three languages: Turkish, English and Arabic.
Some 30 reporters and correspondents worked to create "The Incomplete Revolution: Egypt" under AA Director-General Kemal Ozturk as chief editor.
There are three chapters in the book, including: Egypt's recent history; the fall of Hosni Mubarak; and the coup staged by the General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi which removed the country’s first elected president, Mohamed Morsi.
"War, Blockade, Resistance: Gaza" includes: Palestine's recent history, including the impact of Palestine's iconic leader Yasser Arafat; Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's famous ‘One Minute’ reaction at the Davos economic summit in 2009; and Israel's 51-day operation in the Gaza Strip which left some 2,147 Gazans – mostly civilians – dead.
"The Orphaned Nation: Syria" begins with the country’s political history and examines the hunger, deaths and sorrow which the devastating civil war has brought.
Each book contains exclusive images from AA photojournalists.
The Anadolu Agency aims to become one of the world’s five most influential news agencies by 2020, its 100th anniversary.
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