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AA regional office in Balkans to be inaugurated on March 11

SARAJEVO (A.A) - March 8, 2012 - Anadolu Agency (AA) will open a regional office in Balkans on March 11. The office will be based in Sarajevo,  Bosnia and Herzegovina, and will broadcast stories in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. AA will also provide images and photographs to the region. Turkey's Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina will host a reception at the Embassy Residence on March 10.  Bakir Izzetbegovich, who will undertake the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina on March 10, will inaugurate the office together with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag and AA Executive Board President and Director General Kemal Ozturk on March 11. A photograph exhibition on "Turkey's beauties through AA's objectives" will be opened at the Turkish Culture Center in Sarajevo on the sidelines of the inauguration of the regional office. AA Director General Kemal Ozturk will sign a protocol with the executives of leading TV channels, newspapers and internet news portals of the country and region. Under the agreement, press organizations can access to AA's broadcast in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian free of charge for one year. Executives of leading newspapers and TV channels of Bosnia and Herzegovina congratulated AA on launching such a service. Benjamin Butkovich, the news director of Bosnia-Herzegovina's state TV BHRT, said they were insufficient especially in broadcasting developments in Turkey and Middle East, and expressed belief that this insufficiency would be overcome once AA launched broadcasts. "We know that AA has many correspondents across Turkey and the world, and it will be very important for us to get stories from AA," Butkovich said. Sarajevo Kanton TV's deputy director general Mirza Buljubasich said stories they used to use for years were stories with unilateral perspective of the western media, but they would have a new perspective as AA started its broadcasts in Sarajevo.  Tuzla Kanton TV's director general Adem Azapagic said they were planning to prepare a special bulletin to broadcast AA's stories for an hour every day.  Also, TV-1's director general Sedin Cenan said they were unaware of what was going on countries experiencing Arab Spring because they did not have correspondents there. "We are broadcasting news of agencies that have unilateral perspective on the developments, and AA's broadcast will help us overcome this deficiency," Cenan said. Faruk Vele, the editor-in-chief of Dnevni Avaz newspaper, said they had only one correspondent in Turkey and that correspondent might sometimes be insufficient to cover developments. "Therefore, we sometimes use 'Google translate' system to translate and use some stories, but we are having difficulties and we are making mistakes from time to time," Vele said. Vele said they would no more use translation system once AA started broadcasting, adding that they were ready to cooperate with AA in every area.  Moreover, executives of Bosnia's Serb Republic's official news agency SRNA and Serbian newspapers publishing stories in Banja Luka said they regarded AA's broadcast important and noted that they were ready to cooperate with AA.

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