ANKARA
Iran's Minister of Islamic Culture and Guidance Mohammad Hoseini visited the headquarters of the Anadolu Agency (AA) in Ankara.
Deputy Director General of the AA, Ahmet Tek, and Director of Domestic News, Omer Eksi, provided information to Hoseini on the AA and its centennial vision.
Ahmet Tek told the Iranian minister that the AA attached high importance to cultural and art news aside from political ones.
The AA plans to publish news through its own correspondents from all corners of the world by the year 2020, when the agency would celebrate the 100th anniversary of its foundation, Tek told Hoseini.
Tek stressed that AA's News Academy was training new generation journalists.
The AA is the second center in the world which provides training in war journalism. Our aim is to prevent sending journalists to war zones who have not received training in war journalism, Tek also said.
Minister Hoseini, in his part, said that they wanted to cooperate with the AA.
Hoseini provided information to Tek and Eksi on the Iranian media and Iran's state-run IRNA news agency.
IRNA publishes around 1,500 news per day. We could exchange news with the AA. We are ready to cooperate with the AA within the frame of the News Academy, Hoseini stressed.
Touching on the tourism potential between Turkey and Iran, Hoseini said that, while many Iranians visit Turkey, the number of Turks visiting Iran was not much.
Few Turks visit Iran as Iran is not properly known in Turkey. We request from the AA to help promote Iran's cultural and touristic sites as well as Iran's historic personalities, Hoseini also said.
Earlier in the day, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay and Hoseini inaugurated Iranian Cultural Days in Ankara.
