TASS agyentstvo Sovyetskovo Soyuza") which was the central agency for news collection and distribution for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the agency was renamed "Information Telegraph Agency of Russia" (ITAR-TASS) in 1992, but regained the simpler TASS name in 2014. The origin of TASS dates back to December 1902 when it began operations as the Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnoe Agentstvo) under the Ministry of Finance, with Torgovo-Promyshlennaya Gazeta's staff being the main supplier of journalists. As the demand for non-business began during the first battles of the Russo-Japanese War in February
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