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Anadolu Agency Launches Macedonian Service TURKISH INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION FLAT IN PUBLISHERS FLOCK TO ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL HEAVY RAINS LEAD TO FOOD PRICE INFLATION IN WEATHER SEPTEMBER BOOK FAIR UGANDA ANKARA (AA) - Industrial production in Turkey was ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkey’s biggest international book fair KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) - The cost of food in Uganda is flat in September, the Turkish Statistical Institute report- opened its doors this weekend with a ceremony to mark rising to a level that could threaten the country’s economic Monday ed on Monday. Turkish industrial production- a measure its 34th anniversary. The Tuyap Fair in Beylikduzu opened stability, according to an analyst. Food crop inflation rose SUNNY of output in the manufacturing, utilities and mining sec- Saturday with the theme of ‘Humor: Looking at Life with a from 7.2 percent in September to 20.2 percent the following 18 °C tors- showed no increase in September from the previous Smile.’ This year, the 34th International Istanbul Book Fair month, according to government statistics while the Ugan- month while it saw a 2.8 percent advance from the same will host over 750 publishers from all over the world, plus dan shilling has fallen by about 25 percent against the dollar Tuesday period in the previous year, the report said. panels, seminars and workshops among a total of 300 activ- since the beginning of the year. Low supply and increasing SUNNY Among the main industrial groupings, the largest decrease ities. Sahin said reading habits and art activities are consid- demand has seen maize prices jump by up to 67 percent was in durable consumer goods with a 6.3 percent decline 13 °C compared with the... >ECONOMY ered as a development level not... >TURKEY over the last 12 months, according to... >WORLD Sunday - November 9, 2015 Anadolu Agency Launches IMF Calls on Gulf Macedonian Service Nations to Strengthen THE MACEDONIAN SERVICE BECOMES AA’S 10TH BROADCASTING LANGUAGE FROM Private Sector ITS NEW SKOPJE OFFICE MANAGING DIRECTOR CHRISTINE LAGARDE WARNS OF FALLING REVENUES DUE TO OIL to rank among the world’s five most The Skopje office will be the broad- influential news agencies by 2020. casting center of Macedonian and Al- DEPENDENCE Anadolu Agency opened its office in banian services. of fiscal and export revenues force in the GCC by 2020 Skopje at a ceremony, which was at- The Albanian-Macedonian news desk in the GCC come from oil,” and given the fiscal con- tended by Turkey’s Deputy Prime will cover developments in the region Lagarde said at a meeting of straints on further increasing Minister Yalcin Akdogan, AA’s and the world with photos and videos GCC finance ministers in government employment pri- Chairman of the Board and Direc- to the Macedonian broadcast media. Doha, Qatar. “With oil pric- vate sector, job creation needs tor General Senol Kazanci and AA’s Anadolu Agency aims to bring a es having declined sharply to be stepped up.” Editor -in- Chief and Deputy Director breath of fresh air to the Macedonian since mid-2014, export reve- She said the degree of ad- General Metin Mutanoglu. media landscape with its principles of nues are expected to be near- justment needed would vary Several representatives from Skopje’s being “reliable, impartial, ethical and fast”. ly $275 billion lower in 2015 from country to country major media outlets as well as Turk- It is among the agency’s goals to than in 2014.” among the six-nation bloc. ish and Macedonian bureaucrats also broadcast news in 11 languages by ANKARA (AA) - Gulf states The IMF predicts growth “Well-planned fiscal consol- attended the ceremony. 2020, the year of its centennial anni- must take measures to im- across the region will slow to idation strategies need to be Along with the Macedonian lan- versary. prove private sector invest- 3.2 percent in 2015 and 2.7 put in place as soon as possi- guage, AA broadcasts in Turkish, Macedonian broadcasts are available ment and job creation, In- percent in 2016, compared ble and communicated so that ANKARA (AA) - Anadolu Agency The Macedonian service is now An- English, Arabic, BHS (Bosnian, Cro- to the public on the AA website link: ternational Monetary Fund with 3.4 percent in 2014. people understand how the launched its Macedonian service and adolu Agency’s 10th broadcasting atian, Serbian), Russian, Kurdish-So- http://www.aa.com.tr/mk (IMF) Managing Director Governments should con- adjustment will take place,” also opened an office in the Macedo- language, which will operate within rani, French, Albanian and Persian. >MORE DETAILS Christine Lagarde said late Sunday. tinue to take steps to switch the IMF chief said. nian capital Skopje on Monday. the framework of its centennial vision The warning came as the the focus of growth away She said all countries need to countries of the Gulf Co- from the public and toward focus on expanding non-oil operation Council (GCC) the private sector,” Lagarde revenue; raising energy pric- Ex-Police Chief Held in Turkish face falling oil prices that are said in her speech, which was es; firmer control of spend- threatening their fossil fu- emailed to Anadolu Agency. ing, particularly public sector el-focused economies. “With some two million peo- wages; and a review of capital ‘Parallel State’ Probe “At the moment, a large share ple likely to enter the labor expenditure. SEVENTEEN HELD IN MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON OVER ALLEGED PLOT IN MILITARY ESPIONAGE CASE Two dozen Gaza tunnels in Turkey and around the world. officials at the time of the allegations. The most high-profile prisoner is Ali They were detained for allegedly Bilkay, who previously headed the “acting outside of their legal author- destroyed in Oct: police in one of Turkey’s most pop- ity” in relation to a 2012 espionage ulous provinces, according to a judi- case said to have involved members of cial official in Izmir who spoke under the Turkish military. Egyptian army a customary condition of anonymity. The court ordered the suspects to be HAMAS, MEANWHILE, HOLDS EGYPTIAN Also detained until trial were one of held at the Kiriklar maximum secu- Bilkay’s former deputies Mehmet Ali rity prison. AUTHORITIES ‘FULLY RESPONSIBLE’ FOR LAST Sevik, two inspectors from the gov- Investigations into the “parallel state” WEEK’S MURDER OF GAZAN FISHERMAN ernor’s office, Ferda Ileri and Ahmet focus the “Gulen Terror Organiza- Kaya, and Seyfullah Ozdemir, an tion” that is said to have penetrated CAIRO/GAZA (AA) - The the North Sinai city of Rafah ed President Mohamed Morsi ex-official in the food and agriculture the Turkish state, particularly the Egyptian army said Sunday over the course of October. by the military, however, the ministry. criminal justice system, in a bid to it had destroyed the entranc- Samir also posted photos of Egyptian army has done its The 17 were among a group of 49 overthrow the current government. es of two dozen cross-border tunnel openings that he said best to find and destroy the suspects arrested last week on order Hundreds of police officers, prosecu- tunnels in a fresh crackdown had been destroyed by the cross-border tunnels, which, of the Izmir chief public prosecutor’s last month on a network of Egyptian border authorities. it says, are used to support IZMIR, Turkey (AA) - Seventeen The detainees are all alleged to be part tors and officials have been arrested office. Warrants for a further eight, subterranean passages linking Blockaded by both Israel and militant activity in Sinai. suspects, including the former chief of a “parallel state” conspiracy head- during such investigations, including including Gulen, remain outstand- Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula with Egypt since 2007, the Pales- In September, the Egyptian of Izmir province’s police, had their ed by Fetullah Gulen, a U.S.-based those involved in a 2013 corruption ing. Those arrested were largely gov- inquiry that targeted senior govern- the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. tinian Gaza Strip had relied army went so far as to begin prison detention extended Monday, a Turkish preacher who runs a network on the network of tunnels flooding the tunnel network ernment, local provincial and police ment ministers. >MORE DETAILS In a statement, army spokes- court official said. of schools and commercial enterprises man Brigadier-General Mo- for years to import desperate- with water from the Mediter- hamed Samir said the en- ly-needed supplies, including ranean Sea. trances of 31 cross-border food, fuel and medicine. >MORE DETAILS tunnels had been destroyed in Since the 2013 ouster of elect- Myanmar: Opposition 25 Daesh fighters Australia confident of election killed in E. Afghanistan: UK ‘letting down’ divided on Trans-Pacific victory Officials allies fighting Partnership DAESH HAS REPORTEDLY MADE PRIME MINISTER HAILS TPP WITH OFFICIAL RESULT STILL TO Daesh in Syria AS ‘GIGANTIC FOUNDATION BE ANNOUNCED, NLD CLAIMS TO GAINS AT EXPENSE OF BOTH STONE FOR OUR FUTURE BRITISH MILITARY CHIEF SAYS IT ‘MAKES PROSPERITY’, BUT OTHERS HAVE WON 70 PERCENT OF VOTES GOVERNMENT AND TALIBAN IN NO SENSE’ THAT UK IS BOMBING DAESH NOT SO SURE COUNTED SO FAR AFGHANISTAN’S NANGARHAR TARGETS IN IRAQ BUT CANNOT PURSUE THEM INTO SYRIA By Joshua Carroll porter told the Myanmar Times. PROVINCE ON BORDER WITH YANGON, Myanmar (AA) “Just look around,” he said, motion- PAKISTAN LONDON (AA) - Britain’s Daesh targets in Iraq since ing at the throngs of cheering NLD Sept. 2014, but extending He added that another 28 Daesh supporters gathered to watch the that operation into Syria fighters had been killed in the district unofficial results come in overnight would require parliamentary -- and eight others injured -- in a fire- on a massive electronic screen at the approval.
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