Anadolu Agency Launches Persian Service

Anadolu Agency launched its Persian wire service and officially opened its Tehran office Tuesday, with several of its stories, photographs and videos available to the public at http://www.aa.com.tr/fa.



Anadolu Agency works non-stop to expand its global news network. The inclusion of the new service brings the agency's broadcasting languages to nine, including Turkish, English, Arabic, French, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), Russian, Kurdish, and Albanian.



Anadolu Agency (@anadoluagency), has been meticulous in its preparations for the launch of the Persian service, taking into consideration the social, cultural, historical, economic and geostrategic significance for Turkey of the Persian-speaking countries, which include Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.



The Persian service, of which the beta version has been running for a while (https: //www.facebook.com/anadoluagencypersian), has developed its technical infrastructure in order to supply news stories to media outlets in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan in their mother language.



Anadolu Agency's Tehran-based Persian News Desk (@aa_persian) will widely report on developments in politics, economics, sports, tourism, life, culture and arts all over the world, with the aim of bringing a breath of fresh air to the Persian media landscape.



- Anadolu Agency's Tehran office officially opens



A number of representatives from Iran's major media outlets, as well as Turkish and Iranian bureaucrats attended the official opening ceremony of the agency's Tehran office Tuesday. A reception party was held simultaneously at the Istanbul Persian Desk with the attendance of Anadolu Agency Deputy Director General Mustafa Ozkaya and Anadolu Agency Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Director General Metin Mutanoglu.



Iran, Afghan and Tajik media outlets will now have the opportunity to follow developments in all corners of the world, through the accurate and reliable stories published by the experienced team at the Tehran-based Persian desk.



Anadolu Agency's Persian service will be fully available to its subscriber media outlets on the Agency's HAS interface while some of the service's news stories, photographs and videos will be available to the public on the AA website, at http://www.aa.com.tr/fa.



About Anadolu Agency



Around 2,500 people from 79 nations work for Anadolu Agency in some 86 countries where the agency has its offices. Anadolu Agency, "the source of reliable news", publishes on average 2,200 stories, 2,000 photos, 250 news videos and 10 infographics on a daily basis. Anadolu Agency has subscribers in 45 countries, publishing news stories in nine languages.



It is among the agency's goals to broadcast news in 11 languages by 2020 -- its centennial anniversary. - Ankara