Cihan News Agency Diary

Cihan News Agency Diary

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Cihan News Agency latest on Thursday January 29 2015

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

TOP NEWS

EXPECTED

PRESIDENT RECEIVES CHIEF OF STAFF: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will have a meeting with Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and head of the Confederation of Turkish Real Trade Unions (Hak-İş) Mahmur Arslan separately.

AKÇAKALE/JORDANIAN PILOT/JAPANESE JOURNALIST: Akçalakle Gate Border, located in Turkish southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, is on spotlight over an allegation that the Islamic Stare of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) will release a Jordanian pilot and a Japanese journalist from there.

DETAINED POLICE OFFICERS: Developments will be followed on 26 police officers who were sent to an İzmir court in the morning following their detention.

SCHULZ VISITS GREECE: EP President Martin Schulz will pay a visit to Greece to meet with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS: Developments will be followed in Israel and Lebanon following an attack by Hezbollah fighters against Israeli soldiers.

ITALY/NAPALITANO: Italian Parliament will convene to vote for the successor of President Giorgio Napolitano stepped down on January 14.

DELIVERED

OTHER DELIVERED

PERINÇEK HEARINGS/STRASBOURG-3:A Turkish politician has defended himself at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for having publicly denied in Switzerland that a genocide took place against the Armenian people, saying he stands by his position that the events of 1915 do not fit the legal classification of genocide.

DETAINED POLICEMEN: The number of police officers in detention has reached 19 in an İzmir-based operation launched on Tuesday after two police officers, whose detentions were ordered, turned themselves in on Wednesday.

LAWYER’S PROTEST WITH BABY: Lawyer Feyza Altun Meriç attracted attention when she brought her 7-month-old baby son to the Anatolian Courthouse in İstanbul on Wednesday to protest the conditions for working mothers.

PERINÇEK HEARINGS/STRASBOURG-2:Hundreds of Turks, Azerbaijanis and Iraqi Turkmens gathered in front of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) building while the court began on Wednesday an appeal hearing launched by Switzerland against Turkey's Workers' Party (İP) Chairman Doğu Perinçek, who was convicted by a Swiss court for denying the Armenian claims of genocide, in a case that pits Turkey against Switzerland and Armenia, which is represented in Strasbourg by Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.

AID TO TURKMEN FAMILIES: Turkish Labor Unions (Türk-İş) and Turkish Red Crescent delivered food aid to 1,000 Turkmen families who took refuge in Turkey escaping Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) threat in Iraq.

KOBANE AFTER ISIL: Almost all parts of Syrian town of Kobani are in ruins following a five –months-long clashes between the Kurdish fighters and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

PATIENT ATTACKS DOCTOR: A doctor was attacked by relative of a patient and seriously injured in the western province of Bursa on Tuesday.

PRESIDENT RECEIVES HIGH COURT HEADS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came together with heads of executive, legislative and judicial powers at a lunch in presidential palace in Ankara on Wednesday.

DEADLY ACCIDENT: One person was killed and another was injured at the end of a traffic accident in Ankara on Wednesday.

USA AFTER SNOWSTORM: After emergency situation due to snowstorm ended in Northeast US, authorities and citizens set to plow the snow from roads and streets.

RESCUE FROM MUD: Rescue of a Russian man who became mired in mud drew attraction in social media. The video shows man struggling in the mud and an earth digger came to rescue the man. On the fourth try the vehicle pulled the man from mud.

JOURNALIST DETAINED: Taraf daily reporter and columnist Mehmet Baransu announced on his Twitter account that he was by police once again on Wednesday.

PERINÇEK HEARINGS/STRASBOURG-1: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began on Wednesday an appeal hearing launched by Switzerland against Turkey's Workers' Party (İP) Chairman Doğu Perinçek, who was convicted by a Swiss court for denying the Armenian claims of genocide, in a case that pits Turkey against Switzerland and Armenia, which is represented in Strasbourg by Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.

NEW GREECE FM/TURKEY: Professor of Political Theories of International Studies Nikos Kotzias, who was sworn in as the new Greek Foreign Affairs Minister on Tuesday, made his first statements on his post to the Cihan news agency saying that Turkey and Greece should be good neighbors.

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