Cihan News Agency Diary

Cihan News Agency Diary

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Cihan News Agency latest on Tuesday April 21 2015
Here are the main Video News items Cihan News Agency aims to cover today

TOP NEWS

EXPECTED

HDP/ELECTION MANIFESTO: Co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ will unveil election manifesto of their party.

BRITAIN/1915 INCIDENTS/ARMENIANS: British Foreign Ministry will release a statement on the 100th anniversary of 1915 incidents.

CHINESE PRESIDENT VISITS PAKISTAN: Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a speech at Pakistani Parliament during his visit in Pakistan.

OUSTED MORSI/EGYPT COURT: Egyptian court will make its decision for ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi and 14 defendants.

MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZED: Officials predict the number of the victims in boat tragedy off Libya is more than 900. Developments will be followed.

SAUDI-LED OPERATIONS/YEMEN: Developments will be followed on Saudi-led operation “decisive storm” in Yemen.

DELIVERED

UN CHIEF/ATTACK ON UN PERSONNEL: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the perpetrators of an attack on UN personnel in Somalia to be brought to justice.

SYRIAN TEACHER FOUND DEAD: A Syrian teacher was found dead with his throat slit at his home in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş on Monday.

17 POLICE OFFICERS ARRESTED: Out of the 29 police officers who were detained in an operation in İstanbul, 17 were arrested while 12 officers were released on late Monday after being kept in custody for eight days.

OTHER DELIVERED

CIHAN REPORTER THROWN OUT FRM EVENT: A journalist affiliated with the Cihan news agency, the largest privately funded news agency in Turkey, was thrown out of an event in İstanbul on Monday by the security guards of First Lady Emine Erdoğan in the latest in a series of cases of harassment and censorship against media outlets that do not have a pro-government stance and report on the government's ill-managed policies.

TURKEY’S EINSTEIN DIES: Professor Oktay Sinanoğlu, a quantum chemist dubbed "Turkey's Einstein," died on Monday at the age of 81 in a US hospital, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced on Twitter, expressing his sadness at the professor's death.

AZERBAIJAN/EUROPEAN GAMES: Azerbaijan has neared completion of its preparations for Baku 2015 European Games, which is considered as the biggest sports event.

BOAT CRASH ON ROCKS/3 DIED: A sailing boat with 125 Syrian refugees on board who were trying to pass into Europe through illegal ways, ran aground and was torn into pieces off Rhodes Island of Greece on Monday. Reportedly three of refugees died while others were rescued.

BODIES OF DROWNED REFUGEES: Search units found 24 corpses of refugees who drowned after the smuggler’s boat sank off Libya on Sunday. The bodies were later taken to Malta.

STUDENT KILLS TEACHER: A young teenage student was in police custody on suspicion of killing a teacher and wounding four other people at his school in Barcelona on Monday.

ANITKABIR TO BE OPEN 24 HRS: Anıtkabir, mausoleum of founder of Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, will be opened night and day the 100 th anniversary of Çanakkale (Gallipoli) victory on April 24-25.

LAWYERS PROTEST/ADANA: A group of lawyers showed reaction to search obligation for them at Adana Courthouse on Monday and held a protest.

GOLDEN DAWN TRIAL BEGINS: The trial into members of Greece’s third largest political party, the extreme-right Golden Dawn who are being accused for homicide, bodily harm, racism, xenophobia, keeping and stocking arms and explosives, attempt to mount a coup against legal government, kicked off on Monday in Athens under strict security precautions.

ERBL EXPLOSION/AMATEUR VIDEO: Video records of the firs moments of the Erbil explosion during which three people were killed, two of them Turkish citizens, and eight were injured was released. Video records, which was taken by a Turkish man at the scene showing how the explosion was terrible on the ground.

BODY OF MISSING MAN FOUND: A man who went missing a day ago in the southern province of Mersin was found dead on Monday.

ARMED FIGHT/SYRAIN-TURKISH PEOPLE: A fight broke out between a Turkish family and a Syrian family in the eastern province of Batman on late Sunday, which left five injured.

SOMA TRIAL 5TH HEARING: The fifth hearing of trial into Soma mine disaster which killed 301 workers in last May kicked off on Monday.

PASSENGERS EVACUATED/SHIP ACCIDENT: Gendarmerie forces began to evacuate passengers who stuck in a ship, which run aground off Turkish western province of Çanakkale, on Monday.

OPERATIONS AGAINST POLICE: Security forces raided many houses in a dawn operation, detaining large numbers of police officers in several points in Ankara on Monday.

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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