Murad Sezer

Murad Sezer (born 1969 in Germany) is a Turkish photographer. He moved to Istanbul as a child. He has a journalism B.A. from the Istanbul University and he built a career as a sports photographer in the Turkish media 10 years before he joined Associated Press in 1996. He was part of Associated Press team that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2005 with his photo of US Marines praying over a Marine killed while fighting insurgent strongholds in Fallujah (other people from the team were Bilal Hussein, Karim Kadim, Brennan Linsley, Jim MacMillan, Samir Mizban, Khalid Mohammed, John B. Moore, Muhammad Muheisen, Anja Niedringhaus and Mohammed Uraibi). In April 2009 he joined Reuters News as chief photographer for Turkey.