DHAKA: Time Magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its ‘Person of the Year’.

The magazine cited her role in Europe’s crises over migration and Greek debt, reports the BBC.

Merkel had provided ‘steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply’, editor Nancy Gibbs wrote.

Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named runner-up and third place went to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump.

Gibbs wrote of Merkel, ‘For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is Time’s Person of the Year’.

Time Person of the Year 2015

1. Angela Merkel, German chancellor since the 2005 election, leader of the CDU

2. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State militant group

3. Donald Trump, business magnate seeking Republican nomination as US presidential candidate

4. Black Lives Matter, activist group campaigning against violence towards black people, notably in the US

5. Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran since 2013

6. Travis Kalanick, US entrepreneur, founder of the Uber transportation network firm

7. Caitlyn Jenner, born Bruce Jenner, became 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, officially changed name and gender in 2015

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