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The Cihan News Agency ( tr, Cihan Haber Ajansı) was a Turkish news agency based in
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. The agency, established in 1994, was part of
Feza Publications Feza Publications Inc. (''Feza Gazetecilik A.Ş'') was a Turkish media conglomerate established in 1986. It had the ownership over the '' Zaman'', '' Today's Zaman'' newspapers, the Cihan News Agency, as well as the ''Aksiyon ''Aksiyon'' ( en, ...
, which also owned '' Zaman'' newspaper and ''
Aksiyon ''Aksiyon'' ( en, Action, italic=yes) was a Turkish news magazine. The magazine was close to the Gülen movement. It was established by Feza Publications in 1994. In 2008 it was described by its ''Today's Zaman'' sister newspaper as "the most wi ...
'', a weekly news magazine. Cihan New Agency, which produced news in the fields of current events, politics, economy, foreign news, art-magazine and sports, was daily servicing approximately 450 written news, 315 photos and 100 video news. On July 27, 2016, the agency was closed under a statutory decree during the state of emergency after the
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.


Services

Cihan News Agency provided news services to 78 percent of national newspapers and 53 percent of national televisions in Turkey. The agency was also firmly established on the local level with many subscribers among local TV and radio stations, newspapers and with its numerous local joint broadcasting projects. Cihan also provided news and technical opportunities to over 100 foreign television channels. Some of the channels, which co-operated with Cihan were
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, Bloomberg, MSMBC, ANS, Lider Tv. Cihan had 520 personnel working in 81 provinces and 284 counties of Turkey. Cihan News Agency had correspondents in
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, totaling 25 offices and 37 correspondents in different countries. Maintaining permanent offices in hot spots like Gaza, Arbil and
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, Cihan broadcast live and dispatched recordings from these countries to international media organisations. Cihan News Agency also played a role during the last three elections in Turkey by providing results to the news channels.


See also

* Media of Turkey


References


External links


Cihan News Agency
News agencies based in Turkey Mass media shut down in the 2016 Turkish purges 1994 establishments in Turkey Organizations established in 1994 2016 disestablishments in Turkey Organizations disestablished in 2016 Defunct organizations based in Turkey {{Turkey-media-stub