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Cihan News Agency latest on Wednesday March 04 2015

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

TOP NEWS

EXPECTED

CHP/EXTRAORDINARY MEETING: Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) will convene under chairmanship of party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

FUNERAL FOR COUP VICTIM’S MOTHER: Mother of Erdal Eren, 17-year-old boy who was executed following the military coup of Sept. 12, in 1980, will be buried.

DAVUTOĞLU ARRIVES IN US: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu arrived in the US as part of an official visit. He will convene with investors of Goldman Sachs investors at a lunch.

DEFENSE MINISTER MEETS IRAQI COUNTERPART: National Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz will meet with his Iraqi counterpart Khaled al-Obeidi and he will later convene with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

ALIYEV VISITS BULGARIA: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will be welcomed with an official ceremony in Bulgaria.

DELIVERED

HRC/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA:

LANDSLIDE/HARBIYE WATERFALLS: Harbiye waterfalls known as tears of Daphne according to legends of Apollo and Daphne was affected by a landslide due to heavy rainfall which had been ongoing for two days in Turkish southern province of Hatay.

TURKISH PLANE SLIDES OFF: The Airbus 330 (THY 726) en route to Kathmandu from İstanbul veered towards right on landing before coming to a halt due to heavy fog at Tribhuvan International Airport on Wednesday morning.

NASA LANDS ON DWARF PLANET: NASA's Dawn mission will arrive at Ceres on March 6, 2015, and will be the first spacecraft to explore a dwarf planet. Ceres is the largest body in the main asteroid belt. At the time of its discovery in 1801 it was considered a planet and later demoted.

OTHER DELIVERED

KILIÇDAROĞLU/SETTLEMENT PROCESS: Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has cast doubt on the efficacy of the recently announced roadmap for the settlement of Turkey's Kurdish issue, saying it is unlikely to bring peace, as the two parties to the agreement have already revealed their mutual distrust.

PARENTS ACCUSED FOR DEATH OF CHILD: A 4-month-old girl was found dead in her crib on Monday night after her parents had allegedly left her home alone since that morning.

NEMTSOV FUNERAL: Thousands of mourners on Tuesday filed past the coffin of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, bidding farewell to a charismatic activist whose brazen assassination shocked the country.

TURKISH PARTY LEADER VISITS ASSAD: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received Turkish ultranationalist Vatan Party Leader Doğu Perinçek and accompanying delegation at his residence in Damascus on Tuesday. “Before the war we were very optimistic about our relations with Turkey and as Syrians, we were planning to shape the future of our region in cooperation with Turks” Assad said during the meeting.

SURGERY ACCIDENT: Doctors determined surgical bandage which was forgotten by the medical staff in the body of a woman who gave birth four months ago in Turkish southern province of Osmaniye on Tuesday.

BAHÇELI/SETTLEMENT PROCESS: Nationalist Movement Party (mhp) leader Devlet Bahçeli has drawn a parallel between the Treaty of Sèvres, which the Allied powers imposed on the Ottoman government and was to create a Kurdish state in Anatolia, with a recent agreement between the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the government made in order to solve the Kurdish problem, saying the agreement is a "treasonous text” that will lead to the “collapse of the Turkish Republic.”

PAKISTAN/TURKISH OLYMPIADS: A total of 278 Pakistani students studying at Turkish schools, which have been operating in Pakistan for 19 years, competed in Pakistani leg of Turkish Olympiads to be qualified to participate in the 13 th International Turkish Olympiads.

TURKMEN PRESIDENT VISITS TURKEY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguli Berdimuhamedov at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on Tuesday with an official ceremony.

POPE RECEIVES BARZANI: A meeting was held between Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and Pope Francis in Rome on Monday.

HEARING PROBLEMS/UN: The World Health Organization (WHO) said some 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of hearing loss due to the unsafe use of personal audio devices, including smartphones, and exposure to damaging levels of sound at noisy entertainment venues such as nightclubs, bars and sporting events.

UN UKRAINE REPORT: A United Nations Human Rights Office report on Ukraine estimated that the death toll in the east of the country had crossed the 6,000 mark. The Office's ninth report on this European noted an escalation of fighting despite a ceasefire agreement.

ROBBERY IN 30 SECONDS: Security camera of an agency revealed that a group of men quickly stole four LCD televisions in 30 second in Ankara on Monday.

MAN TAKEN HOSTAGE: A man who was stabbed and taken hostage by his friend at his home was saved in an operation conducted by special operations force in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş on late Monday.

GIMME FIVE CHALLENGE IN ISS: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore of NASA responds to a challenge Feb. 27 from First Lady Michelle Obama. As part of the fifth anniversary of Let’s Move!, the First Lady is challenging everyone to #GimmeFive things they are doing to eat better, be more active and lead a healthier life.

OTHER DELIVERED

TURKISH AMBASSADOR ATTACKED: Turkey's Ambassador to Paris Hakkı Akil was exposed to a paint attack as he was delivering a speech at a conference in Paris.

TEEN DETAINED FOR INSULTING ERDOĞAN: The father of a 13-year-old teenager who last Saturday was summoned to testify to prosecutors for “insulting” president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a Facebook post has lashed out at state authorities for causing his son to suffer psychological trauma due to being treated as a criminal.

YAŞAR KEMAL FUNERAL: Thousands of people, including well-known names from political, art, business and sports environments gathered at Istanbul’s Teşvikiye mosque to pay final farewell to internationally acclaimed Turkish author Yaşar Kemal (92).

RACE HORSES STOLEN: Two British race horses were stolen by a group of men who planned to use them to collect scrap in Turkish western province of Kocaeli on Monday.

SUSPICIOUS ENVELOPE/CANADIAN EMBASSY: A suspicious envelope reportedly containing a yellow powder was found at the Canadian Embassy in Ankara on Monday, prompting units from the National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE), police forces and emergency teams to begin conducting detailed searches of the buildings.

VEHICLE COLLISION: Two vehicles collided at a junction when both drivers entered the junction fast and without control in Turkish central province of Yozgat, security camera revealed.

MUSLIM WOMAN/AUSTRALIA: The New South Wales Planning Minister Pru Goward announced candidates for woman of 2015. Muslim Captain, Mona Shindy who serves at Royal Australian Navy is among the candidates.

TRAFFIC HOG/RUSSIA: A traffic hog was caught on tape while he was driving his car recklessly in Siberia region of Russia.

OIL TANKER EXPLODES: An oil tanker exploded at a gas station in Russia, an amateur camera recorded.

SAMSUNG UNVEILS NEW SMARTPHONES: Journalist Mehmet Baransu was sent to court with a demand for his arrest after detained by the security forces on early Monday following an order by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

JOURNALIST ARRESTED/TURKEY: Journalist Mehmet Baransu was sent to court with a demand for his arrest after detained by the security forces on early Monday following an order by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

BOMB ALARM/ISTANBUL: A back pack which was abandoned at a bus stop in İstanbul’s Beşiktaş district led to panic in the city on early Monday.

SPACEWALK IN ISS/NASA: Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA conducted their third spacewalk in eight days March 1 to install antennas and communications gear that will be used to provide rendezvous and navigational information to visiting vehicles approaching the complex in the future, including the new U.S. commercial crew vehicles.




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Slug: TURKEY SYRIA BORDER
Event: Covering latest developments from the Turkish province of Hatay along the
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