RECORD €1.9 BILLION INVESTMENT IN MORE THAN HALF OF SOUTH SUDAN’S FORMER GALATASARAY GOALKEEPER WEATHER / ANKARA TURKEY IN 2015 CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL HOSPITALIZED IN COLOMBIA” The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development More than half of the children in South Sudan are out-of- Former Galatasaray and Colombia goalkeeper Faryd Mon- Thursday (EBRD) made a record investment in Turkey of €1.9 billion school as the world’s newest country struggles with conflict, dragon has been hospitalized amid local media reports of RAINY ($2.1 billion) in 2015, the bank said on Wednesday. the UN’s children’s charity UNICEF said Tuesday. depression. According to a clinic in the Colombian city That was up from €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) in 2014, a state- More than 1.8 million children - 51 percent of the child 13°C of Cali, 44-year-old Mondragon was admitted late on ment read. Turkish projects represented 20 percent of the population - are not in education, the highest proportion Wednesday for a “metabolic imbalance” and is being kept EBRD’s total €9.4 billion investment last year across some of 22 countries in conflict. More than 800 schools have been Friday under observation. Meanwhile, the Colombian media three dozen countries. “The EBRD delivered a remarkable destroyed in sectarian violence that erupted in 2013. CLOUDY performance in Turkey despite the challenging environ- “Education cannot wait - it is the smartest investment for claim that the former international player was suffering 9°C ment, responding to an ever-growing demand for finance, a peaceful and prosperous South Sudan,” Jonathan Veitch, from depression linked to domestic problems and had at- especially outside large metropolitan areas,”... >>ECONOMY UNICEF’s representative in South Sudan, said.>>WORLD tempted an overdose of medication. >>SPORTS

Thursday January 14, 2016 Armed Shia youths awaiting Russian planes strike school in Syria’s Aleppo, Mahdi’s arrival killing 3 200,000 Shia youths prepared to wage holy war upon Mahdi’s arrival, Local sources say Russian strikes come as ‘revenge’ for IRGC commander quoted as saying Assad regime’s failure to make gains in Aleppo province prophesized Muslim leader, Iran’s “prepared” for the Mahdi’s ap- Three children were killed geted by Russian warplanes. semi-official Fars News Agency pearance, going on to assert that and another 25 people in- He described the Russian has quoted an Iranian Revolution- the current chaos in the region -- jured on Wednesday when strikes on residential areas as ary Guard Corps (IRGC) com- including the emergence of Daesh Russian warplanes targeted a “revenge” for the Assad re- mander as saying -- was a sign of the Mahdi’s im- primary school in the Syrian gime’s recent failure to make Speaking at an event organized by minent arrival. city of Aleppo, according to significant military gains in the Islamic Education Center for Shia Muslims believe the Mah- local Civil Defense sources. Aleppo province. Strategic Studies, an Iranian think di will appear on earth to bring The sources, who are based On Monday, 17 people were tank, Jafari reportedly said that justice to mankind shortly before in the targeted area, said that killed and another 25 injured tens of thousands of Shia youths Armageddon, and that his appear- Russian airstrikes had been when Russian warplanes tar- had been armed and trained for ji- ance will be presaged by wide- carried out in Aleppo’s Zibdi- geted a school in Anjara, a ya district. town in western Aleppo. it launched its air campaign had -- in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, spread chaos and war. >>MORE DETAILS Pakistan and Yemen -- in antici- Following the strikes, Syrian Since Sept. 30, Russia -- a to support Syria’s embattled There are around 200,000 gion prepared to wage holy war pation of the Mahdi’s appearance. Civil Defense teams rushed to close ally of the Assad regime Assad regime. Shia-Muslim youths in the re- upon the arrival of the Mahdi, a The youths, he said, had been the area to help the victims. -- has targeted a number of While the Kremlin says the “Russian warplanes, which civilian areas and humanitar- airstrikes target positions have been targeting civil- ian facilities in Syria, accord- held by the Daesh militant ian areas, have now begun ing to U.S. officials. group, some members of the striking schools,” local activ- In a recent report, the Syr- western NATO alliance say ist Ahmed Abu Ammar told ian Network for Human Russia is targeting moderate Four detained over Istanbul Anadolu Agency, going on Rights asserted that Russian opposition groups opposed to note that a school in An- airstrikes had killed 583 peo- to Assad. >>MORE DETAILS jara and a mosque in Aleppo ple -- the vast majority of suicide bomb attack had both recently been tar- whom were civilians -- since Police have identified bomber, Davutoglu tells journalists in Istanbul Refugees’ Police have detained four suspects toglu said. day’s victims and said that out of the Syria’s besieged on in connection with the Istan- “We are trying to find out who are injured, six were still in hospital. bodies bul suicide bomb attack, Turkish the real actors behind this,” he said, “Terror is a threat to humanity all verge of humanitarian Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu suggesting that other parties may across the world,” the Turkish PM wash said late on Wednesday. have helped Daesh in carrying out stressed, adding: “We will take crisis A blast at the city’s Sultanahmet Tuesday’s attack. more effective measures to ensure ashore in district on Tuesday morning killed Davutoglu was speaking after a public security in every corner of Residents of 13 Syrian towns and villages 10 people – mostly German tour- briefing on the deadly terror attack Turkey and especially in Istanbul.” under siege by Assad regime and its allies western ists – and wounded 15 others. A with Turkey’s Interior Minister Ef- “We have the responsibility to now at risk of starvation Syrian suicide bomber carried out kan Ala, Health Minister Mehmet make Istanbul one of the most se- Turkey the attack, Turkey’s president, Re- Muezzinoglu, Istanbul Governor cure cities in the world,” he added. cep Tayyip Erdogan, said earlier. Vasip Sahin, Mayor Kadir Topbas, He invited “all German and Euro- Turkey is exposed to multiple ter- Police have identified the suicide and Chief of the Istanbul Police pean friends” to Istanbul, declaring: ror threats, including Daesh and bomber, Davutoglu told journal- Department Mustafa Caliskan. “Turkey is safe, Istanbul is safe.” the PKK, Davutoglu said. ists in Istanbul but did not supply They all, along with German Inte- Stating that around 12 million The Turkish premier recalled sim- a name. rior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, tourists visit the city per year, ilar deadly attacks – such as in An- He said that the bomber had Daesh visited the site of the Sultanahmet Davutoglu said every type of kara on Oct. 10, 2015 which left links. “Police were not in pursuit blast and visited injured victims at measure against terror would be over 100 people dead and another Seven refugees have been of the bomber. He had come to the Haseki Training and Research taken to make the city even safer. one in Suruc on July 20 last year in found dead in the western Turkey as an ordinary refugee. Hospital in Istanbul. He stressed determination against which a suicide bomber killed 32 Turkish province of Izmir However, after the attack, all his The Turkish prime minister paid “all kinds of terror regardless of re- Kurdish activists. >>MORE DETAILS The residents of at least 13 cated some 40 kilometers late on Wednesday. contacts were brought out,” Davu- condolences to the families of Tues- ligion, sects, and ethnicity”. Syrian towns and villages northeast of Damascus, also under siege by the Assad re- remains under a regime-im- Local people found six bodies gime and its allies now face posed blockade. in the Seferihisar district be- the specter of starvation, ac- Eastern Ghouta, Al-Tall fore calling the Turkish gen- Day after Istanbul PKK kills civilians, cording to local sources. The Eastern Ghouta region darmerie; local security forc- Jayrud, Rabayah to the east of Damascus, es at the scene confirmed that Opposition-held Jayrud and meanwhile, has remained the six people had drowned. >>MORE DETAILS bombing support for blames Turkish army Rabayah, both located in under a regime-imposed Justice minister accuses terror group eastern Damascus, face fre- siege since December 2012, Turkey continues of causing ‘almost all’ civilian deaths in quent attacks by both the As- which has impeded delivery Israel sued India, Pakistan and Malaysia expressed their sad regime and Daesh. Both of humanitarian aid and de- southeast towns have remained under prived the region of electric- in US for condolences on Wednesday for a suicide bombing a regime-imposed blockade ity and water supplies. Turkey’s justice minister Wednes- since April 2013. According to a local coordi- attacks on that struck Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district day accused PKK terrorists of Abu Kamal, a local opposi- nation committee in Eastern killing civilians and blaming the trary to the very heart of the tar- tion commander, told Anad- Ghouta’s Douma area, some Gaza aid deaths on the security forces. get, a historic city wherein the olu Agency that 85 percent 1,600 local residents have re- Bekir Bozdag said the PKK “on flotilla monuments of three major empires of the recent deaths in the cently died, with an estimat- one side kills civilian citizens, on -- Roman, Byzantine and Otto- town had been caused by ed 40 percent of the casual- the other side makes separate prop- man blend together with a touch attacks by regime forces or ties having been caused by aganda saying ‘the state killed’.” majesty and tranquillity,” he said. Daesh. regime airstrikes and the rest The minister was talking about Pakistan, India condemn Istanbul The city of Al-Dumayr, lo- blamed on malnutrition. the renewed violence in Turkey’s terrorist attack tion regarding these continues.” >>MORE DETAILS Kurdish-majority southeast, where India and Pakistan both expressed The latest operations in the south- security forces have been tackling their condolences on Wednesday east have been concentrated on the PKK since mid-July in the Four individuals, including for a suicide bombing that struck a number of towns in Diyarba- Russia’s ex-Finance three-decade-long conflict’s latest three Americans, have filed a Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district one kir, Mardin and Sirnak provinces, chapter. Minister warns over poverty civil suit against Israel, seek- day earlier, killing 10 foreign tour- where military curfews were im- Figures on the numbers of civilians Russian gov’t needs to raise retirement age ing compensatory damages The day after a suicide bomb left 10 ists and injuring 11 others. posed in mid-December. Nearly killed are disputed and difficult to and restructure debt payments for injuries suffered during people dead and wounded 15 oth- In a press release, the Pakistani 600 PKK members have been killed verify but in September a security an attack aboard a U.S. ship ers in the heart of Istanbul’s central embassy in Ankara condemned the in the operations, the Turkish mili- With the sharp rise of pover- sian daily RBC. source told Anadolu Agency that in international waters in tourist district, organizations and bombing. tary said Tuesday. ty in Russia, the government Russians enjoy one of the more than 6,700 had been killed 2010.During a Washing- countries worldwide continue to “We extend our heartfelt sympa- Bozdag said the operations were needs to prioritize its obliga- world’s earliest retirements, since the PKK first launched its ton press conference Tues- offer Turkey their support while thies and condolences to all those taking a long time as the security tions to improve the econ- currently 60 for men and just armed campaign in 1984. day, the plaintiffs said they condemning those responsible. who have lost their loved ones and forces were taking care not to harm omy, Russia’s ex-Finance 55 for women. However, the “Yes there are civilian people wanted compensation for On Wednesday, Nasharudin Mat pray for the speedy recovery of the civilians. Minister Alexei Kudrin said government has not brought [killed] but most of them, almost “the harm and distress, inju- Isa, CEO of the Global Movement injured,” the embassy said. He added that “there is not anoth- Wednesday. up the increase of retirement all, are killed by the terrorists open- ries and losses caused by the of Moderates Foundation, offered “We stand in strong solidarity er country in the world that carries “The Russian government age yet, mostly due to polit- ing fire and their bullets,” Bozdag attack”. Israel has refused to thoughts and prayers for the de- with the fraternal government and out the anti-terror fight within and needs to raise the retirement ical and economic reasons as told Anadolu Agency’s Editor Desk acknowledge responsibili- ceased, and “all those affected by people of Turkey in their struggle in accordance with the law as Tur- age and solve other issues of the level of Russia’s foreign in Ankara on Wednesday. ty and liability returned by this assault on innocent people, against terrorism,” the embassy as- key does.” >>MORE DETAILS debt restructuring,” Kudrin debts is currently $538.2 bil- “Of course, the judicial investiga- Israel and is still being held >>MORE DETAILS was quoted as saying by Rus- lion. >>MORE DETAILS going about their lives”. serted. there. >>MORE DETAILS “These extreme actions run con-