ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Friday, Jan. 27, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend City Planning Council at Bestepe National Culture and Congress Center. Erdogan later will receive Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar at the presidential palace.
ANKARA – Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend opening meeting of City Planning Council at presidential palace.
ANKARA – Yildirim will later attend the launch of the Culture Ministry’s GENCDES (Youth Support) 2017 project at the Cankaya palace.
ANKARA – Family and Social Policy Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya to attend Anadolu Agency Editorial Meeting.
ANKARA – Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes to attend commemoration ceremony for Holocaust victims.
ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to release statistics on solid fuels for November 2016
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Fitch credit ratings agency expected to release Turkey review and outlook.
LONDON – Reactions to Prime Minster Theresa May’s U.S. visit.
LONDON – Developments on Brexit.
GREECE
SPECIAL REPORT:
Migrants shelter from freezing cold on Greek navy ship
By Idyli Tsakiri
LESBOS, Greece (AA) – African migrants, buttoned up against the cold and carrying plastic bags with their belongings, march aboard a Greek navy cargo ship docked in the port of Lesbos.
BALKANS
SARAJEVO – Leaders of Bosnia Herzegovina to attend commemorative ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
ZAGREB – Leaders of Croatia to attend commemorative ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
BELGRADE – Leaders of Serbia to attend commemorative ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW – Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to meet Syrian opposition delegates. [MERITS]
SUDAN
KHARTOUM – Sudanese opposition leader Al-Sadik al-Mahdi to address supporters after 30 months of self-imposed exile in Cairo.
