ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva at Presidential Palace.
ANKARA – Erdogan to address meeting of village, neighborhood leaders.
ISTANBUL – Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend opening of TRT World Forum at Conrad Hotel.
ANKARA – Yildirim to attend opening of Health Sciences University, recieve honorary doctorate.
ANKARA – Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet Santos Silva.
ANKARA – Cavusoglu to meet Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama.
ANKARA – Forestry and Water Minister Veysel Eroglu to meet Nazim Cavusoglu, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus agriculture and natural resources minister.
ISTANBUL – Turkish Red Crescent President Kerem Kinik to hold news conference ahead of next month’s General Assembly of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Antalya.
ESTONIA
TALLINN – Turkey’s EU Minister Omer Celik to meet President Kersti Kaljulaid, head of Foreign Affairs Commission Marko Mihkelson.
SOMALIA
SPECIAL REPORT: Survivors recall horror of Somalia's deadly truck blast
By Hassan Istiila and Mohamed Dhaysane
MOGADISHU, Somali (AA) – As tales of horror unfold following the weekend's massive truck bombing in capital Mogadishu, Anadolu Agency spoke to some of the survivors at a Turkish-Somali hospital that saved dozens of lives on the day.
SYRIA
IDLIB – Turkish troops monitoring mission in northwestern province as part of de-escalation strategy.
RAQQAH – Raqqah largely cleared of Daesh.
IRAQ
BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces exert authority over control of oil-rich Kirkuk in northern Iraq after taking city from Peshmerga forces.
MYANMAR
YANGON – Amnesty International reports hundreds of Rohingya Muslims killed in recent security operation, calls for arms embargo, prosecutions.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – U.S., South Korean, Japanese diplomats meet to discuss response to North Korea’s nuclear program.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats to begin exploratory talks with Free Democratic Party, Greens on forming coalition.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Weekly parliamentary questions to Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of Thursday’s EU leaders’ summit.
ETHIOPIA
ADDIS ABABA – Foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia to meet to discuss impacts of Nile dam project.
