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Cihan News Agency latest on Tuesday October 21, 2014

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

TOP NEWS

EXPECTED


ERDOĞAN/ SYMPOSIUM: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will attend 2 nd International Ombudsman Symposium in Ankara.

SYRIAN BORDER: Developments will be followed on Syrian border.

GÜRSEL: Prof. Dr. Seyfettin Gürsel suffered a cerebral hemorrhage late on Sunday and was taken into an intensive care unit in Antalya. Developments will be followed.

TAN/ ENGLAND: President of Singapore Tony Tan will pay a visit to England.

CHINA PROTESTS: Developments will be followed on protests in Hong Kong.

STRIKES AGAINST ISIL: Developments will be followed on airstrikes conducted against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and clashes in Iraq.

EBOLA OUTBREAK: World Health Organization (WHO) said Ebola death toll topped 4,500. Developments will be followed.

GALATASARAY/ PRADELLI: Galatasaray coach Cesare Pradelli will hold a press conference before Borussia Dortmund match.

BORUSSIA DORTMUND/ GALATASARAY: Borussia Dortmund will arrive in İstanbul for a match with Galatasaray. Coach Jürgen Klopp will hold a press conference before the match.

DELIVERED

SPACEWALK OF EXPEDITION 41: NASA Spacewalk Specialist Devan Bolch narrates this animation depicting the events scheduled for the Oct.22 spacewalk. Expedition 41 Commander Max Suraev and Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will remove and jettison experiment hardware and antennas no longer needed on the Russian segment of the complex and perform a detailed photographic survey of the exterior of the Russian modules.

JOURNALIST DETENTION: Some random photos, including one taken at a barber, were included in an investigation file into Aytekin Gezici, a journalist who was detained after his house was searched early on Friday based on a "reasonable suspicion" clause introduced in a new government judicial package that has yet to be approved in Parliament.

TURKISH UNIVERSITIES: Higher Education Board (YÖK) President Gökhan Çetinsaya has said universities in Turkey are in urgent need of 45,000 new instructors, out of which 20,000 must hold doctorate degrees to meet the average standard of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

US AMBASSADOR/CREDENTIALS: The new US ambassador to Turkey, John Bass, has presented his letter of credence to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

SITUATION IN KOBANI: While a US-led coalition conducted intense air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in and around the Syrian town of Kobani, militants continued shelling the town over the weekend.

HEAVY SNOWFALL/TURKEY: A heavy snowfall which has been continuous in the southeastern province of Hakkari's Yüksekova district since Sunday evening has created amazement among local people at this time of the year.

RUSSIAN ARTIST SLICES EAR: Pyotr Pavlensky, a Russian performing artist, cut off a part of his ear in a protest to Russian government.

600 SURIAN REFUGEES RETURNS: Six-hundred Syrian citizens who have been taken shelter in Turkey due to civilian war in their country, returned to home passing through Akçakale crossing in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on Monday.

CHP PROTESTS/DEC. 17 PROBE: Members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)’s provincial branches went to courthouses in many cities on Monday to protest decision by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Friday to drop charges against the suspects implicated in Dec.17 graft probe.

TURKEY ALLOW PESHMARGA TO KOBANI: Turkey is helping Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces to cross into the Syrian border town of Kobani to help its defense in the face of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) onslaught, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Monday.

ISISL ATTACKS/KOBANI: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) expressed its resolution to seize Kobani despite bombardments and strikes against them.

EBOLA SUSPICION/ISTANBUL: A patient who arrived at İstanbul's Haydarpaşa Numune Teaching and Research Hospital in the mega city's Kadıköy district with Ebola like symptoms, led to panic at the emergency unit of the hospital.

YUNUS EMRE HYMNS/KAZAKHSTAN: Islamic hymns which were composed by Anatolian Sufi poet Yunus Emre, was recited by a group of university students, which attracted great applause from the audience during a program in Kazakh capital Almaty on Sunday.

FOREST FIRE/MARMARIS: A fire which erupted in the southwestern resort town of Marmaris on Sunday evening in a forest was brought under control by continuous efforts of the fire fighters.

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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