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Cihan News Agency latest on Friday AUGUST 29, 2014

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TOP NEWS

EXPECTED

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT/ APPOINTMENTS: İstanbul branches of The Turkish Education Personnel Union (Türk Eğitim-Sen) will file a criminal complaint about school principal appointments at Çağlayan Court House.

ERDOGAN/ DAVUTOGLU: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will receive Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu at Çankaya Presidential Palace in Ankara.

DAVUTOGLU/MEETING: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will hold a press conference at Prime Ministry Office in Ankara. Davutoğlu will later attend party group meeting of Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

EU MINISTERS / MEETING: EU Foreign Affairs ministers' informal meeting will be held in Milan.

UKRAINE CRISIS: Developments will be followed in Ukraine.

WHO/ EBOLA: World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Ebola epidemic could afflict more than 20,000 people before it is taken under control.





DELIVERED

INAGURATION CEREMONY: Former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formally took over the presidency from Abdullah Gül in a ceremony at the Çankaya presidential palace.

RESTRICTIONS AGAINST SEVERAL MEDIA: Several media outlets were not allowed to cover President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inauguration ceremony that was held at the presidential palace on Thursday.

PROTESTS IN MARDIN: A group of farmers blocked the Mardin-Kızıltepe Highway in the southeastern province of Mardin on Thursday in protest of power cuts in the province, saying that their agricultural products have been damaged since they could not irrigate them due to the power cuts.

CRISES IN ERDOGAN OATH-TAKING: Erdoğan, now the 12th president of Turkey, took his oath at Parliament in a ceremony that was boycotted by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputies, one of which threw parliamentary regulations booklet.

MEHTERAN SHOW/MOSCOW: A brief show of Turkish janissary band of Mehteran at Moscow's Red Square drew great interest from Russians.

TAXI DRIVERS/RATES: The base taximeter fare in İstanbul was raised from TL 2.95 to TL 3.20 and the cost per kilometer was increased from TL 1.83 to TL 2, an increase which was not welcomed by the taxi drivers who found increase low.

ERDOĞAN SWORN AS 12. PRESIDENT: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who won presidential elections on August 10 by getting 51.8 percent of the votes, has taken oath as the new president of Turkey during an inauguration ceremony at the Parliament.

13 POLICEMEN DETAINED: At least 13 members of the police, including ranking officials, were detained in southern Turkish province of Adana on Wednesday over using an instant messaging software.

QUEUE AT KAPIKULE: As Turkish expats began to return their countries, hundreds of thousands of vehicles lined at Kapıkule border gate, which sits along the Turkish-Bulgarian border, created kilometers-long queues.

CHP LEADER/ERDOĞAN INAGURATION: Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said he will not attend President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's presidential oath-taking ceremony today.

ETA CARINEA/NASA: The Eta Carinae star system does not lack for superlatives. Not only does it contain one of the biggest and brightest stars in our galaxy, weighing at least 90 times the mass of the sun, it is also extremely volatile and is expected to have at least one supernova explosion in the future.

UN/AFGHANISTAN ELECTIONS: The United Nations pledged to redouble its support to Afghan electoral authorities to expedite a thorough and credible audit of the 14 June presidential run-off elections.

LIONFISH/CARIBBEAN SEA: Over the past 20 years, lionfish, an invasive species, has spread out of control in the Caribbean and seriously impacted local marine biodiversity. The fishermen of La Caleta, in the Dominican Republic, who have voluntarily given up fishing in the area and instead turned to tourism as an alternative sustainable lifestyle, have seen the threat the lion fish has posed to their scheme.

LIGHTENING WITH RAINBOW: People were amazed by a lightning which occurred just after appearance of a rainbow in Sweden’s Tärnaby town on Wednesday.

ISS BENEFITS FOR HUMANITY: The Vessel-ID System investigation on the International Space Station demonstrated the ability for a space-based radio receiver to track a ship’s Automatic Identification System (AIS) signal, the marine equivalent of the air traffic control system.

COMETS/NASA: The Rosetta mission will give us an unprecedented look inside a comet, watching the icy traveler become active as it nears the sun. What can we learn from this adventure?

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