Cihan News Agency Diary

Cihan News Agency Diary

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Cihan News Agency latest on Tuesday May 12 2015
Here are the main Video News items Cihan News Agency aims to cover today

TOP NEWS

EXPECTED

COUP MAKER GENERAL/FUNERAL: A ceremony will be held by Turkish General Staff for Kenan Evren, the leader of the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup and a former president. A funeral prayer will be held for Evren at Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque and he will be buried at the State Cemetery.

ERDOĞAN RECEIVES GREEK FM: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will receive Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias. Erdoğan will welcome Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba with an official ceremony. A press conference will be held following a series of meetings.

LAWYERS WERE DETAINED: Three lawyers and secretary were detained by the security forces in Konya province. Developments will be followed.

KERRY MEETS PUTIN: US Secretary of State John Kerry will have a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi.

EU FINANCE MINISTERS MEET: Finance minister of the EU countries will have a meeting in Brussels.

AZERBAIJAN HOSTS G20: Azerbaijan will host G20 summit which gathers counties, members of economic cooperation platform.

DELIVERED

EU/UNSC/MIGRANT DEATHS: The European Union Monday asked the UN Security Council for assistance in stopping the deadly flow of migrants in the Mediterranean.

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT/ANKARA: Four people, including a child, were inured as a result of a traffic accident in Ankara on Monday.

ROBBERY CAUGHT ON TAPE: A group of men broke into a supermarket by cutting its stutterer which was caught by a security camera.

OTHER DELIVERED

POLICE RAID LAWYER’S OFFICE: One of Konya's prominent lawyers was taken into custody on Sunday night based on “reasonable suspicion" that he had committed a crime and detained for 14 hours before being allowed to consult his legal counsel, Turkish media reported on Monday.

PRESIDENT CRITISIZE OPPOSITION: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan increased his indirect criticism of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) on Monday ahead of a parliamentary election slated for June 7, calling the party “buffoonish” and saying “it is not in a situation to administer the economy.”

COALITION F16 DOWNED/YEMEN: Yemeni rebels said on Monday they shot down a fighter jet as Saudi-led coalition air strikes intensified a day ahead of a hoped-for five-day humanitarian truce.

OFF-ROAD COMPETITION/TURKEY: Within the sidelines of Youth Week activities, an off-road competition that was organized in İliç district of eastern Turkish province of Erzincan became the scene of exiting moments as the adrenaline was at its highest during the races.

WILD BOAR ENTER SHOPPING MALL: Entering a shopping center a wild boar caused panic among clients on late Sunday in Hong Kong.

HOSTAGE CRISES ON BOSPORUS BRIDGE: An armed took a 13-year-old boy hostage on İstanbul’s Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge.

ACCIDENT: A person was injured when he was hit by an automobile in the northern province of Zonguldak on Monday.

FIRE IN ISTANBUL: A major fire that broke out in a wooden building in historic Fatih district of İstanbul on Sunday night spread to neighboring buildings in a short time and four wooden buildings burnt into ashes as a result.

TAXI DRIVER/HORSE RACING: An amateur camera recorded a taxi driver who placed his bet for horse racing at the same time he was driving his vehicle in İstanbul’s Bahçelievler district.

SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT: A school bus fell into a culvert that was under construction in the central Anatolian province of Kırıkkale on Monday, leaving one person dead and five people injured.

TURKS FIGHT IN GERMANY: A fight broke out ın Sunday between a pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) supporters and a group prior to a rally held by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Germany.

TURKISH VOLLEYBALL CLUB/WORLD CHAMPION: Eczacıbası VitrA İstanbul is the undisputed new world volleyball champion after outlasting Dinamo Krasnodar 3-1 (25-16, 25-21, 24-26, 25-19) in the final of the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Zurich, Switzerland on Sunday.

DAVUTOĞLU VISITS SYRIAN BORDER: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu paid a visit to Bilekli Border Post, located in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, on Sunday.

DANGEROUS SKATING: A young man who held on to mudguard of a passenger bus while skating was caught on a camera in İstanbul’s Faith district.

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Event: Covering latest developments from the Turkish province of Hatay along the
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