ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend his party's group meeting at parliament.
ANKARA – Monitoring developments in Idlib, northwestern Syria, in wake of Assad regime attacks martyring Turkish soldiers.
US
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump to meet Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno Garces at White House.
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud at State Department.
ALBANIA
TIRANA – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold joint press conference with acting Albanian Foreign Minister Gent Cakaj.
TIRANA – Cavusoglu to meet President Ilir Meta and Prime Minister Edi Rama.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW – Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to hold news conference.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to hold news conference ahead of the meetings of defense ministers, expected to address situation in Syria.
CHINA
WUHAN – Following global spread of coronavirus outbreak and efforts to fight it.
LIBYA / RUSSIA / TURKEY
TRIPOLI / MOSCOW / ANKARA – Monitoring diplomatic initiatives to find solution to Libya crisis.
SENEGAL
DAKAR – Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau to meet Senegalese President Macky Sall.
SPORTS
ROME – 2020 European Wrestling Championships.
SPECIAL REPORT
Erdogan’s Pakistan visit ‘golden opportunity’ to boost trade ties
By Aamir Latif
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Pakistan this week will not only help strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries but will also help boost bilateral trade, according to local businesspeople.
SPECIAL REPORT
A glimpse into the genesis of Myanmar's genocide
By Maung Zarin
LONDON (AA) – The International Court of Justice’s Jan. 23 interim order in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar is designed to protect the Rohingya and preserve the crime sites. It has brought a sense of vindication to several million Rohingya victims – in the diaspora, inside Myanmar, and in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
SPECIAL REPORT
Turkish leader's Pakistan visit to be 'historic': Envoy
By Islamuddin Sajid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Turkey's ambassador to Pakistan said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Islamabad starting tomorrow will be a major step towards exemplary bilateral ties between two brotherly countries.
SPECIAL REPORT
Experts cool on prospects of swift UK-Turkey trade deal
By Karim El-Bar
LONDON (AA) – Turkey will be one of post-Brexit Britain’s top destinations for a trade deal after the European Union and the U.S., but despite the strong bilateral desire to strike a trade pact, experts are cool on the prospects of it happening anytime soon.
SPECIAL REPORT
Cameroon: Novel initiative combines fish farming, agriculture
By Aurore Bonny
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – A growing number of people in the Central African nation of Cameroon are using an innovative method to integrate fish farming and plant cultivation.
SPECIAL REPORT
‘UN charter mandates that Guterres mediate on Kashmir’
By Mehmet Ozturk and Islamuddin Sajid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – The world has yet to fully grasp the gravity of the situation in South Asia springing from the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, according to Sardar Masood Khan, the president of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, also known as Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).