ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday March 15, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
AFYONKARAHISAR – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend several large inauguration ceremonies.
ARDAHAN / ARTVIN – Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to address public rallies.
AMASYA – Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to attend his party’s public rally.
ANKARA – Anadolu Agency Editors’ Desk to host Labor and Social Security Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu.
MALATYA – Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus to attend meetings and inauguration ceremonies.
ISTANBUL – Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek to address opening of Turkey-Ukraine Business Forum.
ANKARA – Turkish statistical authority TurkStat to announce labor figures for December 2016.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON- British Prime Minister Theresa May to take questions in parliament after approval of bill giving government the power to initiate formal Brexit negotiations.
FRANCE
STRASBOURG – Re-elected European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker deliver statements to European Parliament on the March 9-10 European Council.
PARIS – French President Francois Hollande meets with new Gambian President Adama Barrow.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold hearing on Syria.
NEW YORK – Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya to address UN General Assembly meeting on women’s empowerment, days after she was deported by the Netherlands amid political tensions.
PAKISTAN
SPECIAL REPORT:
Pakistan’s long-overdue census begins
By Aamir Latif
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan Wednesday began its long-overdue census of its ever-growing populace, with some 200,000 soldiers assisting civilians as observers point out procedural inadequacies such as not acknowledging all the country’s languages.
SUDAN
KHARTOUM – Head of Libya’s UN-backed unity government to meet with Sudanese president in Khartoum.
LIBYA
TRIPOLI – Fighting continues in Libya’s “oil crescent” between forces loyal to Tobruk-based parliament and militia group.
KAZAKHSTAN
ASTANA – Third round of Syrian peace talks continues under auspices of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, with statement due afterwards.
TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS
LEFKOSA – Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci to receive UN Cyprus Envoy Espen Barth Eide.
THE NETHERLANDS
AMSTERDAM – Dutch voters to cast ballots in close parliamentary election.
