AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
Cevat Cinar on a stretcher casts his ballot at a polling station in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Turkey is voting in pivotal parliamentary and presidential elections that are expected to be tightly contested and could be the biggest challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has faced in his two decades in power. (AP Photo)[ASSOCIATED PRESS]
May 12-18, 2023
From elections in Turkey and the Champions League seminfinals, to floods in Italy and protests in Senegal, this gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa.
The selection was curated by AP photographer Thanassis Stavrakis in Athens, Greece.
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A man plants sunflowers in his garden near a damaged Russian tank and its turret in the village of Velyka Dymerka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Efrem Lukatsky
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands before their meeting at Chigi Palace, Government's office, in Rome, Saturday, May 13, 2023. Zelenskyy is in Italy for a one-day visit and will meet with Pope Francis at The Vatican. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Alessandra Tarantino
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