Croatian grief, Occupying Everything, and Iranian nukes.
Snow In Iran, A New Government In Greece, Protests In Minsk, And Topless In Zurich.
Lake Orumieh, or Urmia, in northwestern Iran, was once one of the country’s most beautiful natural wonders. Now, shrunk by drought and mismanagement of rivers, the lake is better known as an environmental disaster. Photos by Abbas Atilay, RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service
Occupy Oakland, nationalists march in Russia, and 50 years of Turkish guest workers in Germany.
Russian ultranationalists marched in a "Russian March" in Moscow on November 4, 2011. Russia marks National Unity Day on November 4, when it celebrates the defeat of Polish invaders in 1612 and replaces a communist celebration of the 1917 revolution.
In the days following Turkey's earthquake, Abbas Atilay, a photographer working for RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, traveled to the city of Van, which was one of the places worst affected by the quake. While he was there, he documented the frantic rescue efforts that took place in the immediate aftermath of the quake and also captured images of local residents as they began the slow process of rebuilding their lives.
Polls opened on October 30 for Kyrgyzstan's 3-million-plus registered voters to pick a new president for the first time since bloody protests chased Kurmanbek Bakiev from power a year and a half ago. Interim leader Roza Otunbaeva declined to run, leaving a field of 16 presidential hopefuls to battle it out to lead post-Soviet Central Asia's lone parliamentary democracy. (Photos by RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service and official sources)
From prisoner swaps to Greek riots, Kosovo roadblocks, and the undoing of a Libyan dictator.
Muammar Qaddafi took power in Libya in 1969 and ruled the North African country until he was deposed in 2011.
Photographers Abbas Atilay and Ahmed Mukhtar twice visited the Azerbaijani city of Samaxi -- in May and September 2011 -- to meet the residents of a state boarding house for people with mental disorders.
Apple boss Steve Jobs is remembered following his death, as Russia fetes its former/future president.
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