Bosnian leader votes in Anadolu Agency photo contest

Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic on Wednesday voted in Anadolu Agency's Photos of the Year competition.

Izetbegovic cast votes in the news, life and sports categories.

In the news category, he picked Wisam Hashlamoun's photo of Fawzi Al-Juneidi, a 16-year-old Palestinian teen who was detained on Dec. 7 during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) and dragged away blindfolded by dozens of Israeli soldiers.

Al-Juneidi has since become the symbol of ongoing protests against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

"This photograph is actually a paradigm of violence against the weaker by the more powerful. In the photo, we see the child blindfolded. It depicts a decades-old violence," he said.

In the life category, Izetbegovic picked 'Journey of Sheep' which shows a shepherd carrying a newborn lamb, trying to keep it alive under extreme weather conditions.

He chose the "Etnospor Culture Festival in Istanbul" in the sports category -- a photo of equestrian vaulting which he called "fascinating".

Anadolu Agency's Photos of the Year competition was first held in 2012.

This year, 68 images selected from over 750,000 photographs shot in different parts of the world, were put up for voting with English and Turkish captions.

Last year, 165,000 people participated in the voting.

This year's voting will continue till Dec. 31 at photovideorate.aa.com.tr.