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Cihan News Agency latest on Thursday September 18, 2014

Here are the main Video News items Cihan News Agency aims to cover today

TOP NEWS

EXPECTED
ERDOĞAN/ MEETING-ÖZEL, DAVUTOĞLU: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will attend High Advisory Board meeting of the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD) at Four Seasons Hotel. Erdoğan will later receive Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel, head of the Religious Affairs Directorate Mehmet Görmez and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu separately at Çankaya Presidential Palace in Ankara.
DAVUTOĞLU/ ÖZEL- MEETING: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will receive Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel and chair a meeting on the settlement process. Davutoğlu will later receive Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek.
REFERENDUM IN SCOTLAND: Scottish people will head to polls to vote for referendum on independence.
ÇAVUŞOĞLU/ STEINMEIER: Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will convene with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin.
NUKE TALKS: Talks on Iranian nuke will resume in New York.



DELIVERED

MENDERES COMMEMOMERATED: Turkey's ninth Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, former Foreign Minister Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and former Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan, who were executed in September 1961 following the May 27 coup, were commemorated at their graves on Wednesday, on the 53rd anniversary of their death.

SECURITY MEETING/ISIL: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has held a high-level security meeting in Ankara with the attendance of top government, military and intelligence officials to discuss the growing threat of the radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against a backdrop of international pressure on Turkey to join a multi-national campaign against ISIL, with Turkey deliberating over the possible establishment of a buffer zone to contain the ISIL advance.

ERDOGAN SLAMS NYT: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at The New York Times on Wednesday over a report saying the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been steadily attracting Turkish recruits, calling the report “shameless."

REFERENDUM IN SCOTLAND: Until little over a week ago, it seemed unthinkable - that Scotland, an integral part of the United Kingdom, a country fused with England for more than three centuries, could break away and go it alone.

CYPRIOT LEADERS MEET: At the meeting with the attendance of United Nations (UN) Secretary General's Special Adviser for Cyprus Espen Barth Eide, leaders of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities Derviş Eroğlu and Nikos Anastasiadis decided to move the negotiations to the next phase and agreed on a joint text which will determine the sidelines of the process.

THAI MAN/MOTORCYCLE RIDING: A man astonished thousands of people with his video footage during which he rode his motorcycle while he was lying down in Thailand.

ACCIDENTS IN ISTANBUL: Two women were hit by a truck in İstanbul’s Şişli district on Tuesday, which was recorded by security camera of a shop.

EU MINISTER VISITS STRASBOURG: Turkish European Union (EU) Minister and Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozkır will hold several meetings with European Parliament (EP) and Council of Europe (CoE) parliamentarians in Strasbourg and Brussels during his four days visit.

DAVUTOGLU LYKETOFT MEETING: Prime Minister met with Danish Parliamentary Speaker Mogens Lyketoft at Prime Ministry office in Ankara.

BAN KI-MOON/EBOLA: Amid the alarming spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa, UN secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the scope of the disease has gone "beyond health issues" and that, if not "properly treated," it may "affect the political stability" of the countries affected.

UN/GAZA RESTORATION: UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry said his office has brokered a trilateral agreement between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations to enable the reconstruction in Gaza strip, involving the private sector in Gaza and giving a lead role to the Palestinian Authority.

SNOWFALL IN TURKEY: First snowfall of the season was observed on Mount Erciyes, located in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Wednesday.

TURKISH SIMIT IN US: Traditional Turkish delicacy simit, a ring of chewy bread coated with toasted sesame seeds, continues to attract more customers in New York.

LIFE IN INDIA AFTER FLOODS: After remaining disrupted for 11 days, Railways on Monday partially resumed train services in Kashmir Valley following restoration of tracks damaged by flood waters.

DAVUTOĞLU/CYPRUS PROBLEM: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who paid an official visit to Cyprus on Tuesday, stated that concrete steps to solve Cyprus issue shpuld be taken on a critical progress in Cyprus negotiations.

BOEING DEVELOPS SPACECRAFT: The CST-100 spacecraft in development by Boeing Space Exploration of Houston, Texas, will -advance beyond the design phase and be put into manufacturing for flight tests and eventual operational missions to the International Space Station.

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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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