TASS (, "Soobshchyeniye TASS"). TASS included affiliated news agencies in all 14 Soviet republics in addition to Russia: RATAU (Ukrainian SSR, now Ukrinform), BelTA (Byelorussian SSR), ETA (Estonian SSR), Latinform (Latvian SSR, now LETA), ELTA (Lithuanian SSR), ATEM (Moldavian SSR, now Moldpres), Armenpress (Armenian SSR), Gruzinform (Georgian SSR), Azerinform (Azerbaijan SSR, now AZERTAC), UzTAG (Uzbek SSR, now UzA), KazTAG (Kazakh SSR, now Kazinform), KyrTAG (Kyrgyz SSR, now Kabar), Turkmeninform (Turkmen SSR, now TDH) and TajikTA (Tajik SSR, now Khovar). Over the history other affiliates existed, e.g. KarelfinTAG for the Karelo-Finnish SSR. TASS news and photos were received by 4,000 Soviet newspapers,
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