News eventually the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). The Chinese Communist Party created its news agency, the Red China News Agency, in 1931; its primary responsibilities were the "Red China" newspaper and the internal "Reference News". In 1937, the Party renamed the agency "Xinhua", New China. Xinhua became the official news agency of the People's Republic of China in 1949. These agencies touted their ability to distill events into "minute globules of news", 20–30 word summaries which conveyed the essence of new developments. Unlike newspapers, and contrary to the sentiments of some of their reporters, the agencies sought to
Firat News Agency by Interpol on Turkey’s request. He was arrested under the accusation of collaborating with a terrorist organisation and was conditionally released a few days later. Firat News Agency Firat News Agency, (, ), is a PKK-affiliated news agency that gathers and broadcast news from the Middle-East. The news agency have offices in Amsterdam and journalists around the world. Access to its websites from Turkey has been repeatedly blocked by Turkish courts, and its journalists have been arrested both by Turkey and the European Union countries due to its link to the PKK. According to the Turkish sources, the news agency