Cihan News Agency Diary

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Cihan News Agency latest on Tuesday April 1 2015
Here are the main Video News items Cihan News Agency aims to cover today

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GUMAN ATTACK TO ISTANBUL POLICE DEP-2: Turkish police shot two attackers outside Istanbul's police headquarters on Wednesday and killed one of them while one officer was wounded, news İstanbul governor has said.

GUMAN ATTACK TO ISTANBUL POLICE DEP-1: An armed man, suspected to has carrying bomb, initiated an armed attack to Istanbul Police Department. Police sources report that two officers were injured as a result of the attack and were hospitalized immediately.

GEZI VICTIM’S TRIAL: The mother of a 22-year-old who died in June 2013 after being shot in the head with a police tear gas canister during Gezi Park protests in the province of Hatay fell ill and was taken to hospital during a hearing in her son's murder trial on Wednesday, as CCTV footage of the incident was being shown.

DESERT COMPETITION WINNERS: Jury decided that both Turkish and Russian contestants won a desert competition held in Moscow saying that Turkish-Russian won the prize on Wednesday.

NIGERIA/NEW GOVERNMENT: Nigeria's new president-elect Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday hailed polls that will lead to the first democratic change of power in Africa's most populous nation as "historic" hours after he secured a decisive victory.

21 LEFTIST STUDENTS DETAINED: Riot police teams dispersed a group of far-leftist students who gathered at İstanbul University to commemorate Şafak Yayla – the terrorist who took the prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage and was killed during rescue operation on tuesday.

MAN TAKING WIFE HOSTAGE DETAINED: A man took his wife hostage during a narcotic operation launched by the police and was seized by special operations team with an operation in İstanbul's Bahçelievler district on Wednesday.

GUNMAN DETAINED/AK PARTY: Police detained an armed attacker who entered ruling AK Party office in Istanbul’s Kartal district by force on Wednesday morning.

JOURNALISTS BANNED TO COVER FUNERAL: Journalists from Cihan news agency, journalists from Bugün TV, the Cihan news agency, CNN Türk, the Doğan news agency, Hürriyet daily, Kanaltürk, Samanyolu TV and the Zaman daily were barred from attending the funeral ceremony held for prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz in Eyüp Sultan Mosque, while members of the pro-government media were allowed to attend.

FUNERAL CEREMONY FOR PROSECUTOR: A funeral ceremony was held for persecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz who was killed on late Tuesday during a shootout after being taken hostage by two far-leftist the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) militants at İstanbul Courthouse on Wednesday.

UN CONFIRMS CIVILIAN CASULTIES: A Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General today confirmed that at least 29 persons were killed Monday in aerial bombing that struck camp for internally displaced persons in Yemen, and that local UN authorities had called on combatants to respect international and humanitarian laws.

HYGIENE AND SANITATION/EBOLA: The tiny village of Kontadubala in Kambia District, Sierra Leone, may seem like a postcard of idyllic country life, but the Ebola crisis has shed a light on longstanding problems such as the lack of water and sanitation.

22 FAR-LEFTISTS DETAINED: A total of 22 people were detained by the security forces as part of an operation launched against banned Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) in the southern province of Antalya on Wednesday.

ARMED ATTACK TO AK PARTY OFFICE: An armed assailant, who entered inside the Ak Party Kartal District Headquarters building in Istanbul alarmed police.

CLASHES IN ISTANBUL: Police clashed with a large crowd on late Tuesday two far-left militants who took a prosecutor hostage were killed by security forces in İstanbul’s Okmeydanı neighborhood.

HUMAN-LIKE LAMB: In a village in the Russian republic of Dagestan, a lamb was born with distinctly human-like qualities.

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PESS FRREDOM/AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST: Sydney Morning Herald Editor-in-Chief Darren Goodsir has said the fact that journalists are being arrested in Turkey is saddening and worrying, calling on the Turkish government to release Samanyolu Broadcasting Group CEO Hidayet Karaca, who has been under arrest since Dec. 19 of last year.

SYRIAN BABY DIES: Tragedy of a woman who lost her one and a half month old baby moved people to tears in Turkish southern province of Mersin.

ROBBER CAUGHT ON CAMERA: A man was caught on a security camera while he was running away with a television he stole from a home in İstanbul.

KURDISH DEPUTIES VISIT BARZANI: Kurdish deputies from Turkey Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Leyla Zana who are also the members of the delegation visiting outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan in the prison within Kurdish settlement process, visited the President of Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Masoud Barzani at his residence in Irbil on Tuesday.

PROSECUTE TAKEN IN HOSTAGE-3: Officials evacuated Çağlayan courthouse following order from the İstanbul Governor’s Office as prosecutor Mehmet Kiraz in case of a young Gezi victim, is still being held hostage.

MASSIVE POWER CUT IN TURKEY-3: Power cut arising from the breakdown in general electric system of Turkey have paralyzed daily life across Turkey.

FLOODS IN INDIA: Six bodies were recovered on Tuesday in Budgam district taking the death toll to 17 in Jammu and Kashmir as several areas of the Valley and parts of Jammu were in deluge caused by heavy rain over the weekend.

PROSECUTE TAKEN IN HOSTAGE-2: As the hostage crises continuing in Çağlayan courthouse, special operation team has arrived at the scene. It was seen that the riot police took tight security around the courthouse.

PROSECUTE TAKEN HOSTAGE-1: The prosecutor in the case of Berkin Elvan, a teenager killed after hit by a gas canister fired by the police during Gezi protests of the summer of 2013, has been taken hostage by an outlawed leftist group.

ERDOĞAN VISITS SLOVAKIA: Within the scope of his Eastern European tour, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Slovakia on Tuesday. Erdoğan was welcomed with an official ceremony by his counterpart Andrej Kiska in the capital city Bratislava.

DISPLACED CHILDREN IN UKRAINE: UNICEF is concerned with the current humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine as more than one million people have been forced to flee their homes, including more than 140,000 children.

MASSIVE POWER CUT IN TURKEY-2: The major power outage across Turkey which was caused by the breakdown in general electric system of the country, paralyzed the train services in Marmaray - Istanbul’s and world’s first underwater rail link connecting two continents.

BAN KI-MOON VISITS IRAQ: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he was "concerned" by allegations of summary killings and other abuses by militias fighting alongside the Iraqi armed forces.

MASSIVE POWER CUT IN TURKEY-1: Power cut arising from the breakdown in general electric system of Turkey have paralyzed daily life across Turkey.

AIRSTRIKES IN YEMEN: Yemen's defense ministry, which is controlled by Shiite Houthi militia, said a Saudi-led airstrike on Monday hit a local displaced refugee camp in northern Yemen, killing more than 40 people and injuring 250 others.

SUSPICIOUS SUTCASE PANIC: A suitcase which was left opposite of İstanbul Municipality building alarmed security forces in İstanbul’s Fatih district on early Tuesday.

EXPEDITION 43 WELCOMED ON BOARD: Following a six-hour trip from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 43 Flight Engineer Scott Kelly of NASA, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) were welcomed aboard the International Space Station on March 27 U.S. time (March 28 Kazakh time) by station Commander Terry Virts of NASA and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA, the European Space Agency.

TOTAL ECLIPSE TO BE OBSERVED: On Saturday morning, April 4th, sky watchers in the USA can see a brief but beautiful total eclipse of the Moon.

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.
WASHINGTON: (Mobile & Studio): Cihan’s complete broadcasting and multi-camera studio with transport allows your firm to access developments in Washington, USA.
FRANKFURT: (Mobile) Mobile access to one of Germany’s and Europe’s largest cities and points.
PARIS-(Mobile & Studio): Cihan’s complete broadcasting and multi-camera studio with transport allows your firm to access developments in Paris.
BEIRUT: (Mobile & Studio) Cihan’s complete broadcasting and multi-camera studio with transport allows your firm to access developments in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut.
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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