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Cihan News Agency latest on Thursday October 23, 2014

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TOP NEWS

EXPECTED

SYRIAN BORDER: Developments will be followed on Syrian border.

ERDOĞAN/ LATVIA-ESTONIA: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will pay an official visit to Latvia and Estonia.

PESHMERGA FIGHTERS: Peshmerga forces are expected to go to Kobani as The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliament approved sending peshmerga fighters to Kobani via Turkey.

ZEYBEKÇİ/ ENGLAND: Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi will hold some official talks ins England.

EUROPEAN COUNCIL: European Council Meeting will be held in Brussels.

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: Developments will be followed on Ebola outbreak.

UEFA MATCHES: Beşiktaş will face Partizan and Trabzonspor will face Lokeren in the UEFA league.


DELIVERED

HOLLANDE/ERDOĞAN'S VISIT: French President François Hollande said on Wednesday that there are international issues France needs to discuss together with Turkey.

ABRAMOVICH'S YACHT/BODRUM: After shuttling back and forth between Greek islands and Turkey's tourist destination of Bodrum's bays, the giant yacht of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich "Eclipse" anchored in Bodrum again.

ATOMIC CLOCK/NASA: The Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC project, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is developing -- for use aboard spacecraft -- a smaller and lighter version of the refrigerator-sized atomic clocks used at ground-based space tracking stations.

KURDISH PARLIAMENT/PESHMARGA: The parliament of northern Iraqi Regional Kurdish Government (KRG) convened on Wednesday to discuss and submit the resolution which will allow armed Peshmarga forces to cross into Kobani passing via Turkey to repel Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants from the city.

COALITION STRIKES ISIL: Jet fighters belonging to US-led coalition shelled some points where militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are fighting in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.

NEW EU COMMISSION: The European Parliament voted to approve the new European Commission, led by Jean-Claude Juncker, in a ballot on Wednesday in Strasbourg.

GALASARAY-DORTMUND MATCH: Going through its final training, Galatasaray will face Bundesliga side Borrusia Dortmund for UEFA Champions League Group D match at Türk Telekom Arena stadium on Wednesday in Istanbul.

GIANT MUSHROOMS: Giant mushrooms, which grow indigenously in southern Turkish city of Mersin, attract people attention with its extraordinary shape in Southern Turkish city of Mersin.

MAN FOUND DEAD IN GEZI PARK: Body of an old man was found in Gezi Park, next to Taksim Square in central İstanbul, on Wednesday.

PILEUP IN ISTANBUL: A four-vehicle pileup, which involved two trucks, one semi-trailer truck and a passenger bus, took place on TEM highway near Sakarya province on Wednesday. Surprisingly, no one died in the accident.

BAN KI-MOON/GAZA: Addressing the Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said "nothing could have prepared me for what I witnessed in Gaza." Ban said that he saw "mile after mile of wholesale destruction" and heard "heart-wrenching accounts of suffering and pain" from survivors of an attack on a UN run school.

VACCINES AGAINST EBOLA: A senior UN official has confirmed that two experimental Ebola vaccines are the "front runners" in the race to stop the transmission of the virus. The first vaccine was developed by the British company GlaxoSmithKline, and the other one by the Government of Canada.

GALATASARAY AND DORTMUND FANS FIGHT: Security cams installed at different points of İstanbul’s Beyoğlu district captured a fight between Galatasaray and Borussia Dortmund fans on late Tuesday.

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
CAIRO, EGYPT (Mobile & Studio): Cihan’s complete broadcasting and multi-camera studio with transport allows your firm to access developments in Cairo, the cultural capital of the Arab World.
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - (Mobile): Follow the world from the middle of the world. Programming and TV access to Istanbul, a leading world city in art, culture, industry, media and transport.
ANKARA, TURKEY - (Mobile): Full programming access to one of the Asia’s leading capital cities and the workings of the Turkish government.
IZMIR, TURKEY - (Mobile): TV and transport access to Izmir, a city on the Aegean Sea and an important regional leader in the fields of Tourism and Trade.
KIRKUK, IRAQ-(Mobile): Mobile access to one of Iraq’s largest cities and a point of cultural dialog between Turkey, Iraq.
IRBIL, IRAQ - (Mobile): Mobile access to one of Iraq’s largest cities and a point of cultural dialog between Turkey, Iraq and Iran.
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