ANKARA Cheap Toronto Raptors Jerseys , Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned on Saturday that Turkey's steps in response to a planned independence referendum in northern Iraq's Kurdish region will have security, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions.
Speaking to reporters in the central province of Kirsehir, he said the planned independence referendum was wrong and an "adventurist" move that put Turkey at risk, and Turkey will be in close cooperation with Iran and Iraq to response.
When asked if a cross-border operation was among the steps, he said that possible responses to the referendum include security, economic, and political options, saying it was "a question of timing."
The prime minister underlined that those who made the decision to hold the referendum would pay a price.
On Friday, Turkey's National Security Council warned northern Iraq against holding a referendum on independence would cause "grave results," and called the referendum to be completely cancelled.
On June 7, the Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani announced his plan to hold a referendum on Sept. 25 on seeking independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region from Iraq.
The international community, especially Iraq's neighboring countries such as Iran, Turkey and Syria, have voiced strong opposition to the move, fearing it would inspire the huge Kurdish population in their own countries to follow suit.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- NASA's asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a close approach to Earth and successfully used our planet's gravity on Friday to "slingshot" itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, the U.S. space agency said.
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft came within 10,711 miles (17,237 km) of Antarctica, just south of Cape Horn, Chile, at 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT), NASA said in a statement.
As a result of the flyby, the velocity change to the spacecraft was 8,451 miles per hour (3.778 km per second).
"The total velocity change from Earth's gravity far exceeds the total fuel load of the OSIRIS-REx propulsion system," said Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
"So we are really leveraging our Earth flyby to make a massive change to the OSIRIS-REx trajectory, specifically changing the tilt of the orbit to match Bennu."
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, launched in 2016, is currently on a seven-year journey to rendezvous with, study, and return a sample of Bennu to Earth.
If all goes well, it will arrive in August 2018 and spend the next two years photographing and mapping the asteroid's surface to better understand its chemical and mineralogical composition, including selecting the sample site.
Then, in July 2020, it will touch the asteroid for only three seconds to collect at least 60 grams of loose rocks and dust using a special device and store the material in a sample return capsule.
The spacecraft will depart the asteroid in March 2021 and travel for two-and-a-half years on a trajectory for Earth return in September 2023.
" A shopper walks past a Qiaodan Sportswear retail shop in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: AP
China's top court on Thursday ruled that three trademarks registered by Fujian-based Qiaodan Sportswear have violated basketball legend Michael Jordan's rights.
The Supreme People's Court (SPC) on Thursday overturned two decisions made by Beijing courts and asked the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to issue a ruling on the disputed trademarks.
Jordan is known as ""Qiaodan"" in Chinese.
""I am happy that the Supreme People's Court has recognized the right to protect my name through its ruling in the trademark cases,"" Jordan said in an e-mailed statement cited by Bloomberg. ""Chinese consumers deserve to know that Qiaodan Sports and its products have no connection to me.""
Qiaodan Sportswear, however, said the ruling would not interfere with the company's operations. Of the 68 disputed trademarks the company has filed, the SPC has ruled in favor of the firm in 50 of them.
The company told sports.sina that the three trademarks are defensive trademarks and therefore would not stop the company from using the Chinese characters ""Qiaodan"" in its products or advertisements.
A defensive trademark is applied by a well-known trademark owner for goods or services that are not intended to be used, to prevent other traders from using it.
The company also said it plans to go public, the 21st Century Business Herald reported.
Rare victory
Although Jordan's court victory has limited impact, the ruling is rare for foreign brands in China, where companies, including Apple and New Balance, have often come out on the losing end of trademark disputes.
""Because a trademark is an integral part of intellectual rights, the SPC decision will serve as a good example, proving that China will protect every company's or individual's intellectual property rights (IPR) in accordance with Chinese laws,"" Xu Xinming, a Beijing-based lawyer specializing in IPR told the Global Times.
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