Cihan News Agency Latest On Friday, September 20, 2013

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Cihan News Agency latest on Friday, September 20, 2013



Here are the main Video News items Cihan News Agency covered today.



TOP NEWS



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YES ANNUAL MEETING: The 10th annual meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES) will be held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych and Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaite will be in attendance at the meeting. EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış will represent Turkey during the meeting.



KRG ELECTION: Kurdish Journalist and author Mumtaz Haydariy talked to Cihan news agency ahead of the KRG parliamentary election on September 21.



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INJURED STORK: A stork which lost its leg after hitting an electricity pylon walks again thanks to a prosthetic leg that an orthopedics company in Turkish central Anatolian province of Eskişehir.



MILITARY ACTIVITY ON SYRIAN BORDER: Turkish army is continuing to strengthen its existence along Syrian-Turkish borderline by reinforcing border units with additional heavy artillery and troops.



TUSIAD URGES EU: President of the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD) has urged the European Union to revive stalled membership negotiations with Turkey to deepen relations with the EU as well as improve democracy and rule of law in the candidate country.



IRANIAN FM VISISTS UN: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Iran's Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif on Thursday (19 Sept)at United Nations headquarters and commended the efforts of his new government in promoting dialogue with the international community.



PROTESTORS CLASHES WITH POLICE: Environment and Urban Planning Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar's pledge to route a new cross-campus road under wooded areas of the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) did little to dissuade groups protesting the development, who clashed with police again on Thursday night.



NEW APPLE PHONES IN ASIA: Apple acolytes in Asia kicked off the global rollout of two new iPhones Friday, but complaints about its high price and no new alliance in the vast Chinese market threatened to dampen the mood.



ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK IN ANKARA: Islamic Development Bank (IDB) opened its Turkish office in Ankara with the participation of Turkish President Abdullah Gül and Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan.



PRESIDENT'S PRESS CONFERENCE: Commenting on the capture of the northern Syrian town of Azaz by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, Turkish President Abdullah Gül has said Turkey has repeatedly warned international powers that the unsolved Syrian crisis would breed instability and terrorism in the war-torn country.



CONVERSATIONS WITH KAREN NYBERG: NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg discusses how she decided to become a mechanical engineer in this video, which is part of a special series developed from Nyberg's preflight conversations with fellow NASA astronaut Cady Coleman.



NEW TRIO PREPS FOR LAUNCH: The three crew members who will return the International Space Station to its full six-person complement are in the homestretch of their launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.



KERRY ON SYRIA: The UN Security Council must be prepared to agree to a binding resolution on Syria's chemical weapons next week, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday.



MEXICO FLOOD: Deaths from floods and landslides battering Mexico neared 100 on Thursday as a fresh hurricane hit the northwest and rescuers faced a risky mission in a village buried in mud.



OTHER EXPECTED



IDB İSTANBUL OFFICE: The Islamic Development Bank opens an office in Ankara. Turkish President Abdullah Gül and Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan are expected to attend the opening ceremony.



OTHER DELIVERED



JAPANESE TOURIST WENT HOME: Hoshie Teramatsu, a Japanese tourist who has escaped a stab attack with serious injuries while her friend lost her life in Turkish central Province of Nevşehir on September 9, sent to her home country by an ambulance jet arranged by Turkish Health Ministry on Thursday.



MOTHER AND 4 CHILDREN KILLED IN TURKEY: A mother and her four children have been killed in an attack outside a prison in southern Turkish province of Mardin.



TRUCK DRIVERS PROTESTS: Congestion occurred on the Fatih Sultan Mehmet (FSM) and Bosporus bridges as a result of a protest by dump truck drivers against the closure of a dump site in İstanbul starting at around noon on Thursday.



HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN SYRIA: The United Nations (UN) human rights office said they have been asking for the referral of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC), but they also want the resolution on Syria to focus not only on chemical weapons, but the over 100,000 victims of conventional weapons.



ELECTIONS IN NORTHERN IRAQ-2: Final preparations are under way for the parliamentary election in Iraqi Kurdistan's Regional Government (KRG). While a few days left for the elections which are set to be held on Saturday, parties have been campaigning to win enough seats at the Kurdish parliament.



MERKEL, STEINBRUECK HOLD RALLIES: Angela Merkel's necklace, a middle-finger photo and "Veggie Day" have been hot-button issues in a general election campaign that Germans say has been shockingly banal.



ACCIDENT IN TURKEY: Seven people were killed and 25 others were injured on Thursday when a bus carrying passengers hit a truck from behind in the Kızılören district of Afyonkarahisar province.



STORMS IN MEXICO: Thousands of frustrated tourists lined up under sweltering heat Wednesday to board airlifts out of the flooded resort of Acapulco while a drenched Mexico braced for new storms.



ELECTIONS IN NORTHERN IRAQ-1: Iraq's Kurdish region goes to the polls on Saturday, grappling with a swathe of disputes with the central government while fellow Kurds fight bloody battles across the border in Syria.



TURKISH ECONOMY: Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan has said the recent growth rates of the Turkish economy have been pretty much in line with year-end targets but that the quality of growth needs special attention.



FED INTEREST RATES: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the Fed could still decide to begin cutting its stimulus program later this year.



CLASH IN EGYPT: Egyptian troops and police stormed the village of Kerdassah near Cairo Thursday in the latest crackdown on militants, media and security officials said.



NASA CLIMATE CHANGE: Will climate change drastically reduce our food production, or will it change what we produce?



AN ANTARES ROCKET LIFTS OFF: NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard its Antares rocket at 10: 58 a.m.



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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