AA photos of freed journalists feature in French media

Anadolu Agency's photographs, captured during a welcoming ceremony last week inParis for four French journalists freed in Syria, have seen wide media coverage inFrance.The weekly Le Point, among the biggest French news magazines with a circulation ofaround 500,000, allocated two full pages for one of the photos captured by AA’sMustafa Yalcin.News websites such as Francetv info, lafrance.co and 1jour1actu.com also used thephotos.The four French journalists - Edouard Elias, Didier Francois, Pierre Torres andNicolas Henin - who were released after 10 months of captivity in Syria, arrived at amilitary base in Paris on April 20 and were welcomed by French President FrancoisHollande, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and relatives.Since last year, Anadolu Agency has posted photojournalists in France, the U.S.,Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany, the U.K., Greece, Brussels, Pakistan and Israel to createa powerful network. The move comes within the scope of AA's centennial vision tobecome one of the world's top five news agencies by 2020, the agency's hundredthanniversary.The agency also employs talented stringer photojournalists in countries such asIndia, Indonesia, Brazil, Venezuela and Thailand.In addition, AA has begun marketing its photos with broader global coveragethanks to an agreement signed with Getty Images in March, in addition to thosewith other leading photo agencies such as AFP Imageforum, DPA, Scanpix, Contacto,and VI Images.