Cihan News Agency Diary

Cihan News Agency Diary
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Cihan News Agency latest on Wednesday, 16, 2014
Here are the main Video News items Cihan News Agency aims to cover today.

TOP NEWS

EXPECTED

TURKEY MALAYSIAN PM : Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will visit Turkey. Developments will be followed.

ERDOĞAN WILL MEET BARZANI: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will come together with Iraqi Regional Kurdish Government's Prime Minister of Nechirvan Barzani today.

DELIVERED

PRESIDENTS/PRESS CONFERENCE: In response to recently circulated rumors that President Gül would agree to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's candidacy for presidential elections, Gül has signalled that the issue of selecting a presidential candidate within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has not yet been settled.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS/DISARMMENT: At a launch of the book "Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do!", United Nations Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas called upon high school and college students around the globe to take part in efforts to disarm the world from nuclear and other weapon of mass destruction.

TORTURE AND KILLING PHOTOS/UN: A report into the credibility of photographic evidence of large-scale torture and killing smuggled out of Syria was presented today by France at a press conference at the United Nations.

LATVIAN PRESIDENT VISITS TURKEY: A cavalry regiment joined for the first time a welcoming ceremony held at the Çankaya presidential palace in Ankara on Tuesday as Turkish President Abdullah Gül welcomed Latvian President Andris Berzins.

SYRIAN OPPOSITION/TOW: Syrian opposition sources claimed that they have obtained twenty U.S. made anti-tank TOW missiles for the first time since the civil war shave been started in the country.

OPPOSITION/INTELLIGENCE STATE: The leaders of the two opposition parties have argued that the draft law on the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) contains very problematic articles and it seeks to turn Turkey into an intelligence state.

ERDOĞAN THREATENS JUDGES: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who claims that there are “gangs” inside the Turkish judiciary, has vowed to “purge those gangs and networks from courthouse hallways.”

OTHER DELIVERED

BOEHNER VISITS TURKEY: Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner paid a surprise visit to Ankara on Tuesday to hold high level meetings with Turkish officials.

TURKISH SCHOOLS/AFRICA: African businessmen and ambassadors stress that they have developed trade relations with Turkey thanks to Turkish schools acting as bridges in their countries, although the ruling Justice and Development (AK Party) government is planning to shut down Turkish schools abroad that are affiliated with the movement of Islamic Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen.

RASMUSSEN/UKRAINE CRISES: Speaking to press members before EU Defense Ministers talks in Luxembourg on Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed his concerns about the violent actions of some small separatist groups in eastern Ukraine and Russia's continued pressure on the country's borders.

KILIÇDAROĞLU SLAMS ERDOĞAN FOR TWITTER: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) strongly criticized government which calmed that the Twitter has committed tax fraud saying that governmental officials involved in tax fraud are not tried in a court.

CHP DEP CHAIRMAN/ARMENIAN ARGUMENTS: The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy chairman, Faruk Loğoğlu, has reacted to reports published in pro-government newspapers about the Turkic American Alliance (TAA), saying Turkish institutions in the US work towards lobbying for Turkey's interests rather than against them.

NAAT PROGRAM IN IZMIR: A total of 55 students from 30 countries captivated hundreds of spectators with their recitations of naats -- poems in praise of the Prophet Muhammad -- during a ceremony held in the Aegean province of İzmir on Monday evening to celebrate Holy Birth Week.

GÜL PRESENTS MEDAL TO TATAR LEADER: Former leader of the Crimean Tatar community Mustafa Abdulcemil Kırımoğlu was awarded the Order of the Republic Medal of Turkey in an official ceremony at the Çankaya presidential palace in Ankara on Tuesday.

TURKISH LANGUAGE OLYMPIADS/CHICAGO: The Middle America leg of the 12th International Turkish Language Olympiads was held in Chicago under the name of "Turquoise Language and Culture Festival" on Sunday.

LUNAR ECLIPSE: A total lunar eclipse was observed over America, which is the first of four consecutive phenomena of this kind this year and next.

MAN KILLS WIFE COMMITS SUICIDE: Turkish police found a couple dead in a car near Çubuk dam in the Altındağ district of Ankara following a tip-off from residents in the area.

WORLD TRADE REPORT: The sluggish pace of trade growth in 2013 was due to a combination of flat import demand in developed economies ( 0.2%) and moderate import growth in developing economies (4.4%) , announced WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo while presenting trade figures for 2013 and prospects for coming years.

SOMALIA NATIONAL ARMY ANNIVERSARY: On Saturday (12 Mar), a ceremony was held to mark the Somali National Army (SNA) 54th anniversary.

ARMED ATTACK IN ISTANBUL: Three people, including a girl, were shot to death during an armed attack in İstanbul’s Bakırköy district on Monday night.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS: Winner of the Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday at Columbia University.

CIHAN - LIVE POSITION

Slug: TURKEY SYRIA BORDER
Event: Covering latest developments from the Turkish province of Hatay along the Turkey Syria border.
Location 1: Hatay Yayladagi
Location 2: Gaziantep- Kilis

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