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Cihan News Agency latest on Wednesday, May 15, 2013



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



TOP NEWS



TURKISH PM US: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is currently in the US capital of Washington, will visit the construction site of Turkish-American Cultural & Community Center.



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TURKISH PRESIDENT BALKANS SUMMIT: Turkish President Abdullah Gul will attend the third meeting of the Tripartite Balkans Summit and hold a joint press conference where the final declaration of the summit will be made public in Ankara.



GERMAN TRIAL: The trial of the terrorist National Socialist Underground (NSU) a group that is alleged to have carried out the murders of eight Turks, a Greek and a policewoman over a period from 2000 to 2007group in Germany to be continued in Munich.



TURKISH AIRLINES STRIKE: With union groups and airline representatives saying they are no closer to reaching a deal over a new round of contracts and the rehiring of 305 fired union members, a company-wide strike at Turkish Airlines (THY) is set to begin today.



TURKEY OPPOSITION EU: Chairman of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu will deliver a speech at the European Parliament Socialists Group, and hold a joint press conference with Hannes Swoboda, Chairman of Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament, in Brussels.



TURKISH PM US: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is currently in the US capital of Washington, will visit the construction site of Turkish-American Cultural & Community Center.



TURKEY SYRIA BORDER EXPLOSION : Interior Minister Muammer Güler has said four new suspects have been detained in connection with twin car bombs in Hatay's Reyhanlı district, bringing the total number of those under custody to 13, and drawing Turkey closer to fully illuminating the bombings.



DELIVERED



MICROGRAVITY SCIENCE GLOVEBOX: This video is one of a series of short features about some of the experiment racks on station.



GULF MILITARY EXERCISE: Naval forces from more than 41 countries gathered in Bahrain -- across the Gulf from Iran -- on Monday to prepare for a massive minesweeping exercise, the US Fifth Fleet said.



TURKISH PM US -1-: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in US capital city of Washington with accompanying delegation on Tuesday night.



EXPEDITION CREW WELCOMED: Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield and Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko participate in a welcome ceremony after landing aboard their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft in Kazakhstan on May 13.



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VILLEPIN TURKEY: Turkish President Abdullah Gül will received former French President Dominique de Villepin and accompanying delegation in Presidential Palace in Turkish Capital City of Ankara.



TALIBAN RELEASES CAPTIVES: The four of eight Turkish civilians who were released two days ago after captured by the Afghan Taliban have arrived in İstanbul.



GERMAN TRIAL: The second session in the trial of the terrorist National Socialist Underground (NSU) group in Germany, which is accused of 10 murders, was held on Tuesday.



US ANATOLIAN FESTIVAL: The preparations for the third 'Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival' are in full swing. This year the festival will take place in a 50-acre field at Orange County Fair & Event Center, located in the south of Los Angeles. Just like in past years, Anatolia will come to Los Angeles with its wondrous cities and foods.



TURKEY PKK WITHDRAW: A group of 15 PKK terrorists of Kurdistan Workers' Party arrived in Northern Iraq.



ASTRONAUT FAREWELL ISS: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has marked his upcoming departure from the International Space Station by singing a cover version of David Bowie's classic song "Space Oddity" recorded on the orbiting laboratory.



TORNADO CASUALTY TURKEY: One person was killed and 14 others were injured on Tuesday when a tornado struck a construction site in Turkey's southern coastal province of Mersin.



ROHINGYA BOAT CAPSIZED: A boat carrying up to 150 Rohingya Muslims fleeing a cyclone has capsized off Myanmar's coast, the UN said Tuesday, as the storm threatened to strike flood-prone Rakhine State over coming days.



TURKEY BORDER EXPLOSION: The Turkish prime minister has said that the country will retaliate against the twin car bombings in Hatay's Reyhanlı district along the border with Syria that killed at least 51 people "sooner or later" and "proportionately."



VICE PRESIDENT TURKEY: Turkish President Abdullah Gül has met with Egyptian Vice President Essam el-Haddad and his accompanying delegation.



TURKEY PKK WITHDRAW: A group of 15 PKK terrorists of Kurdistan Workers' Party arrived in Northern Iraq.



DERBY FAN MURDER: The man believed to have killed a Fenerbahçe fan on Sunday night was captured by the police late on Monday.



DONOR FAMILY ENCOUNTER: It is the story of a man named Tevfik Yılmaz, whose organs were donated five individuals after passing away at a very young age.



NASA KENNEDY NOW: In this edition of Kennedy NOW! see the preparations under way by the Kennedy based Launch Services Program to ready NASA's IRIS mission for launch later this year.



EXPEDITION CREW LANDS: Expedition 35 Commander Kevin Chris Hadfield and Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko landed their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft in southern Kazakhstan at 10: 31 p.m. EDT Monday.



US UK SYRIA: The United States and Britain on Monday pledged to forge ahead with diplomatic efforts to end the civil war in Syria, saying they had found common ground with Russia on how to proceed.



TURKEY F16 CRASH -3-: One pilot was killed as a F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Amanoslar region in the southern province of Osmaniye, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the border with Syria, local official said late on Monday, but NTV television "ed military sources as saying the crash was probably an accident.



TURKISH PM EGYPT: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Egyptian Vice President Ahmed Islam Al-Haddad at the Prime Ministry official residence on Monday in Turkish Capital city of Ankara.



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



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