Cihan Haber Ajansı, Rusya ile Türkiye arasında ... - Today's Zaman

96 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2011Cihan News Agencybecame a bridge betweenRussia and TurkeyAchieved a strategic partnershippoint with Russia as a result of the“trouble free” foreign policy approachwith the neighbors, Turkey carriesits relations in economy, politics and culturalarena one step forward in each day.Two countries that removed the visa forone month visits develop joint approachesin terms of foreign policy particularlyfor the security of Black Sea. Expecting torank first in year 2011 with 4 million tourists,Russia strengthens its relations withTurkey through Mersin Akkuyu nuclearpower plant in addition to the fuel andnatural gas. The total foreign trade volumetarget of two countries for the followingfive years is 100 billion dollars. The contributionof the directors of the countries,the media, particularly the Cihan NewsAgency is very important in terms of thedevelopment of the relations.Concluded a partnership agreementwith one of the greatest agencies of Russia- Ria Novosti, Cihan News Agencyshares the analysis, images and photographsand transfer the developments inRussia to its subscribers in a reliable andfast manner from the first source. Beinginvited to an international forum titles“Media of Future” held in Moscow, thecapital city of Russia, Cihan News AgencyGeneral Director Abdülhamit Bilicimade a speech in the forum and said thatthe approach concerning the annihilationof the traditional media changes betweenwest and east and that the best exampleof this is the circulation of Zamannewspaper that is exceeding 1 million.THE READER BECAME A PART OF THE NEWSThe Guardian newspaper Chief EditorAlan Rusbridger emphasized that definingthat transformation will be insufficientonly with development expression sincemany simultaneous revolutions are experiencedin the media. The cooperation isas important as competition according toRusbridger who mentioned that the mediabecame introverted cannot stay on its foot.Recording that not agreeing with theopinions concerning that the social networksand blogs will leave the traditionalmedia behind, AP Deputy Chief EditorThomas Kent’s opinion is that many peopleneed a couple of news source to whichthey can rely on. This is out of the area offeredby Twitter. Assimilating the professionaljournalism to a supermarket offeringmany products at the same time, Kentsaid, “You know that the products thatyou will purchase from there will be freshand have good quality. We are not goingto the land to collect the products.”