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INT’L. BOSPHORUS FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS
SATURDAY IN ISTANBUL
ISTANBUL (AA) - The third International Bosphorus
AA COMPLETES FIFTH WAR JOURNALISM
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
FOOTBALL: SPAIN’S ‘EL CLASICO’ SET FOR SATURDAY
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ANKARA (AA) - Anadolu Agency’s fifth War Journalism
ANKARA (AA) - Spanish football heavyweights Real Ma-
Film Festival will kick off Saturday in Istanbul, where 11
Certificate Program concluded in capital Ankara on Friday.
drid and Barcelona will play in La Liga showdown Saturday.
Saturday
premieres will be screened.
The 12-day program organized jointly by Anadolu Agency
and Turkish Police Academy was aimed at training corre-
“El Clasico” will be played in Real Madrid’s home ground
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The Anadolu Agency is one of the main sponsors of the
festival, which is organized by the Bogazici Cinema Asso-
spondents and preparing them to face dangers that may
ciation and the Istanbul Media Academy.
arise during reporting under emergency situations and
“This year, we will host famous acting coach Susan Bat-
conditions of war and natural disasters.Turkey’s official
son,” festival executive Ogun Sanlier told Anadolu Agency.
disaster management agency AFAD, the Turkish Armed
>CULTURE & ART
Forces, and the Undersecretary of Public Order and Security contributed to the program... >TURKEY
Turkey Summons Russian Envoy
Over Bombing of Turkmen
Saturday November 21, 2015
TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY HAS OBJECTED TO A GROUND
OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY SYRIAN AND RUSSIAN AIR FORCES ON
TURKMEN VILLAGES IN SYRIA
ANKARA (AA) - Turkey has summoned Russia’s ambassador to Ankara
over the recent bombing of Turkmen
villages in Syria, the Turkish Foreign
Ministry said Friday.
Syrian regime forces backed by Russian air forces launched a ground offensive on the predominantly Turkmen villages in Bayir Bucak area in
northwestern
Latakia
province
Thursday, according to local sources.
“Within this framework, Russia’s ambassador to Ankara, Andrey Karlov,
has been summoned to our ministry
upon the instruction of our Minister [Feridun Sinirlioglu], where he
was told that the Russian acts are not
geared towards fighting terror, but
bombing civilian Turkmen villages,
which could lead to serious consequences,” Turkish Foreign Ministry
spokesman Tanju Bilgic said in a
statement Friday.
Turkey has requested Russia to
promptly end this operation, Bilgic
said, adding that “our warnings and
request have also been communicated
to Russian deputy foreign minister,
and special presidential representative
for the Middle East, Mihail Bogdanov.”
The clashes between regime forces
and opposition lasted until late hours
of Thursday and left a number of
people dead from both sides, the local
sources said, adding that early Friday,
regime forces began sporadic shelling
that targeted the opposition and several villages.
Aburrahman Mostafa, Syrian Turkmen Council’s chief, said: “Russia
stands behind the attacks and its main
goal is seizing as much territory as
possible to strengthen Assad’s position during the political transitional
period.”
The Turkmen-majority area is about
to fall to regime forces which may
cause 15,000 Turkmen to flee to Turkey, Mokhtar Fatih Mohamed, head
of Turkmen doctors group in Bayir
Bucak region, told Anadolu Agency
Friday.
Turkmen are a Turkic ethnic group
based largely in Syria and Iraq, where
they live alongside large Arab and
Kurdish populations. The Turkmen
community, which includes both
Sunni and Shia Muslims, shares close
cultural ties with the Turkish people.
Syria’s devastating civil war, now in
its fifth year, has left some 250,000
people dead, according to the UN,
and the country remains divided
between various heavily-armed factions.
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Fifteen PKK Terrorists Killed in
Southeast Turkey
ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES, THE
TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN AN
OPERATION IN THE PROVINCE’S
NUSAYBIN DISTRICT
ANKARA, Turkey (AA) - At least 15
PKK terrorists were killed in Turkey’s
southeastern Mardin province Friday,
Turkish security sources said.
According to the sources, the terrorists were killed in an operation in the
province’s Nusaybin district, which
has been ongoing following a curfew
declared on Nov. 13.
People in the area are also facing pow-
Turkey Condemns
Mali Hotel Attack
TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY
THANKS MALIAN SECURITY FOR
RELEASING TURKISH AIRLINES STAFF
ANKARA (AA) - Turkey’s Foreign
Ministry on Saturday condemned the
terrorist attack in Mali, in which 19
people were killed.
“We strongly and vehemently condemn the terrorist attack at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako in which 170 people
were taken hostage and many people
lost their lives,” the ministry said in a
statement.
Seven Turkish Airlines staff were
among the surviving hostages and
the ministry thanked the Malian security forces and French UN soldiers
for freeing the staff.
The statement added that Turkey
would continue to support Mali
against terrorism.
Al-Qaeda-linked militants attacked
the hotel Friday morning.
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er cuts and water shortages because of
suspected damage caused by the PKK.
Also, eight PKK militants, including
one from Sirnak province, one from
Hakkari province and one more from
Sanliurfa province surrendered to security forces, the sources added.
The statement added that Turkey
would continue to support Mali
against terrorism. >MORE DETAILS
Mali Declares 10-Day
State of Emergency
PRESIDENT SAYS 19 KILLED IN
ATTACK, TWO ATTACKERS DEAD
FOLLOWING NINE-HOUR SIEGEN
By Hatice Kesgin
BAMAKO, Mali (AA) - Mali declared a national 10-day state of
emergency and three days of mourning late Friday after assailants killed
19 hostages at a hotel in capital Bamako.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
announced the measures on national
TV following a siege at the Radisson
Blu hotel that saw 170 hostages seized
and two attackers killed.
Nationals from Belgium, the U.S.,
China and Russia were among the
victims, according to official statements.
Keita thanked Malian and French
security forces for their role in end-
ing the siege. U.S. forces were also
involved in helping free the hostages.
Al-Mourabitoun, an al-Qaeda-linked
group led by Algerian Mokhtar
Belmokhtar, claimed it carried out
the attack alongside al-Qaeda’s north
African affiliate.
Seven Turkish Airlines staff were at
the hotel when it was attacked early
Friday morning.
The airline said Saturday that six
had returned to Istanbul by private
airplane after spending the night at
the country’s Bamako embassy. The
company’s station chief remained in Mali.
According to a senior Belgian official, Geoffrey Dieudonne -- an official with the Wallonia regional parliament -- was killed.
China’s official news agency Xinhua,
citing a statement on the website of
the China Railway Construction
Corp., said three executives -- Zhou
Tianxiang, Wang Xuanshang and
Chang Xuehui -- were killed.
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18 °C
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
Barcelona’s Argentine star Lionel Messi is still doubtful for
the clash as he sustained a major knee injury during a game
Sunday
against Las Palmas on Sept. 26.Barcelona will rely on their
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other star forwards, Brazilian Neymar and Uruguayan Luis
Suarez unless Messi will be on the.... >SPORTS
UN Council Adopts
French Resolution on
Fighting Daesh
A CALLS ALL ABLE COUNTRIES TO ‘TAKE ALL
NECESSARY MEASURES’ TO REDOUBLE EFFORTS IN
FIGHT
by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ISTANBUL (AA) – Islamic
finance is based on growth of
assets, not financial engineering, and this organic growth
makes it different from Western debt constructs, Justice and Development (AK)
Party parliamentarian and
economist has said. Ibrahim
Turhan, member of Turkish
parliament for AK Party from
Izmir, made the remarks in
an interview with Anadolu
Agency on the sidelines of the
Second International Islamic
Finance and Economics conference in Istanbul on Thursday.
Turhan, who is also an economist and former chief executive officer of Borsa Istanbul,
said: “One of the principal
causes of financial crisis of
2008-2009 was the vast market that had grown up for securitized instruments.
Greek Coast
Guard Appears to
Sink Refugee Boat
VIDEO RELEASED ON FRIDAY
APPEARS TO SHOW GREEK
COAST GUARD PUNCTURING
DINGHY BOAT PACKED WITH
SYRIAN NATIONALS
ANKARA (AA) - A video released Friday appears
to show Greek coast guards
puncturing a dinghy boat
with a sharp object earlier in
November in the Aegean Sea.
Video footage released by
Turkey’s Office of Public Diplomacy on Friday shows a
sea vessel numbered LS-060,
belonging to the Greek coast
guard, approach the dinghy
carrying refugees, reportedly on Nov. 12.
An officer then seems to
puncture the boat with a
lance. The Greek forces then
appear to rush away from the
scene immediately.
The Turkish Coast Guard
then rescued the 58 Syrian
nationals to take them to
the port of Didim in Western Turkey, according to the
Turkish Office of Public Diplomacy.At least 3,138 refugees have died crossing the
Mediterranean Sea so far this
year, according to the International Organization for Migration.
According to the UN’s Refugee Agency, the total number of arrivals in 2015 so far
in Europe via the Mediterranean is now over 640,000
people. >MORE DETAILS
“These involve debt which is
made to seem less risky using
insurance or derivatives, so
that the relationship between
the debtor and the debt is
no longer direct. Because it
broke down that relationship,
the quality of securitized instruments deteriorated.”
Islamic finance, on the other
hand, used instruments based
on actual assets, so the quality of the instrument cannot
be changed, Turhan said. In
his speech to the conference,
Turhan said that preserving
the direct relationship between debtor and creditor is
part of the moral approach of
Islamic finance.
“Profit sharing and risk sharing in Islamic finance provides a much more secure....
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G20: Turkey
Shows Progress in
Developing
Islamic Finance
FINANCE MINISTRY
AT WORK ON TAX
LEGISLATION TO
FACILITATE SUKUK
ISSUANCE, EXPERT
SAYS
ISTANBUL (AA) - Experts
who attended at a G20 conference on Islamic finance in
Istanbul have pointed to Turkey’s progress in developing
the sector.
Belgian Among
Daesh Suspects
Arrested in
South Turkey
SYRIANS ALSO SEIZED
IN ANTALYA
PROVINCE IN AFTERMATH OF PARIS ATTACKS
UN chief plans March
Summit on Resettling
KED UN REFUGEE AGENCY TO CONVENE
RESETTLEMENT PLUS CONFERENCE IN
MARCH
NEW YORK (AA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
on Friday said the world body
would convene a summit in
March on resettling millions of
displaced Syrians.
Speaking at a General Assembly meeting on the plight of
migrants and refugees in the
Mediterranean basin, Ban said
he asked the head of the UN refugee agency to plan a Resettle-
ment Plus conference in March.
The summit will galvanize international pledges “to resettle or
otherwise help place” millions of
people who have been displaced
as a result of the Syrian conflict.
Now in its fifth year, the war
has claimed more than 250,000
lives and made the country the
world’s single-largest source of
refugees and displaced persons.
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ANTALYA, Turkey (AA) Turkish police arrested three
suspected Daesh members in
the southern province of Antalya on Friday, police said.
Anti-terror officers arrested
a Belgian of Moroccan descent along with two Syrians
on suspicion of aiding and
abetting Daesh, according to
a police source who spoke on
condition of anonymity...