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Cihan News Agency latest on Wednesday July 23, 2014

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ISRAEL’S GAZA OFFENSIVE: Developments will be followed on offensives carried out by Israel in Gaza.

KERRY/EGYPT: U.S Secretary of State John Kerry will have some contacts in Egypt. Developments will be followed.

BAN KI-MOON: U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will pay an official visit to Israel and West Bank.

DUTCH PLANE VICTIMS/NETHERLANDS: Developments will be followed on Malaysian Airlines plane which was shot down over Ukraine. Some of the bodies from 193 Dutch plane victims will be flown to Netherlands.

IRAQ/PRESIDENTIAL: It is expected one of the two presidential candidates, who were nominated by Kurds to be elected as the new Iraqi President by Iraqi parliament. Jalal Talabani’s Kurdistan Patriotic Union Party has nominated Barham Saleh and Fuad Masoom as their presidential candidates.

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DEMİRTAŞ/CALL FOR ERDOĞAN: Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş challenged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also running for president in August's election, to a two-hour debate on TV during a speech in İstanbul on Tuesday.

US OFFICIAL/ERDOĞAN'S STATEMENTS: The Turkish government and its strategic ally, the United States, are publicly exchanging increasingly critical remarks about each other's policies in the region, as US officials warn that “offensive” remarks from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hurt Turkey's international standing.

OPERATIONS/ERDOĞAN: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan admitted on Tuesday that an operation staged on July 22 against dozens of high-ranking police officials who had carried out the Dec. 17 bribery and corruption operation was done upon his instructions.

IHSANOĞLU/OPERATIONS AGAINST POLICEMEN: Joint Presidential Candidate Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu said that proceedings should not be done in the spirit of revenge.

TAXI DRIVERS PROTEST ISRAEL: A group of taxi drivers laid a black wreath in front of Israeli consulate in Turkish capital of Ankara as a protest to Israeli brutal military offensives to Gaza strip.

PKK KILLS TURKISH SOLDIERS: Two Turkish soldiers were killed, one was injured and at least six members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) Syrian branch -- were killed during a clash that erupted on the Turkish-Syrian border on Monday evening, according to a Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) statement released on its official website on Tuesday.

OPERATION AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS-3: Former Deputy Chief of the National Police Department's Anti-terrorism Unit Hayati Başdağ, who was detained early on Tuesday as part of the government's attempt to contain an embarrassing graft scandal that has implicated several ministers and dozens of pro-government businessmen, has said that he has never been involved in any wrongdoings.

OPPOSITION DEPUTY/HELP TO AL-QAEDA: Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan shared police records on Monday concerning the search of a National Intelligence Organization (MİT) truck in Adana as part of an investigation several months ago, asserting that the records prove that the Turkish government has supported radical groups in Syria and Iraq.

OPERATION AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS-2: Turkish authorities have launched a sweeping operation in İstanbul, detaining dozens of members of the police who carried out a recent corruption operation, as part of the government's attempt to contain an embarrassing graft scandal that implicated several ministers and dozens of pro-government businessmen.

GAS TANK BLAST/70 INJURED: At least 70 people were injured when a liquid gas tank exploded in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir’s Lice district on Tuesday.

UN/SITUATION IN GAZA: A United Nations (UN) spokesperson said on Monday (21 July) that the UN agency charged with ensuring the well-being of Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is now housing up to 80,000 people in its various shelters and relief centers and UNRWA's schools, representing about the five percent of the entire population.

DOWNED MALAYSIAN AIRLINER: A draft resolution "deploring" the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH117 was adopted on Monday (21 July) unanimously by the Security Council, calling for a "full, open and thorough investigation."

OPERATION AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS-1: Turkish authorities have launched a sweeping operation in İstanbul, detaining dozens of members of the police who carried out a recent corruption operation, as part of the government's attempt to contain an embarrassing graft scandal that implicated several ministers and dozens of pro-government businessmen.

PERSEUS CLUSTER: A mysterious X-ray signal from the Perseus cluster of galaxies, which researchers say cannot be explained by known physics, could be a key clue to the nature of Dark Matter.

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