ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, April 24, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ISTANBUL – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to separately receive former Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at Vahdettin Mansion.
ISTANBUL – Exhibition organized by Turkey’s Directorate of Communications to open in Istanbul to pay tribute to Turkish diplomats martyred by Armenian terrorist organizations.
ANKARA – Monitoring developments on coronavirus pandemic in Turkey, worldwide.
MYANMAR
YANGON/ANKARA – Monitoring developments amid brutal crackdown on anti-coup protests in Myanmar.
SPECIAL REPORT
20 years of deadly war in Afghanistan
By Shadi Khan Saif
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – The most conservative estimates by local and international rights group suggest that almost 80,000 civilians have been killed and more than double that number injured in Afghanistan during the 20 years of war since the US invasion.
SPECIAL REPORT
Plight of Kashmiri prisoners worries rights defenders
By Hilal Mir
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Kashmiri pro-freedom leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai’s “preventive” detention since July 2020 highlights the bleak plight of Kashmiri political prisoners, according to rights activists and experts.
SPECIAL REPORT
OPINION – Human rights crisis in Myanmar, history test for ASEAN leaders
By Usman Hamid
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AA) – At the time when the world is busy with tackling COVID-19 pandemic, Tatmadaw – Myanmar’s national armed forces – has overthrown the civilian government and overturned election results. It happened at the cost of the lives of those who protest against the military coup, or those who were considered to be against the domination of the Tatmadaw.
