ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday Jan. 31, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend Defense Industry Executive Committee meeting.
ANKARA – Erdogan to separately receive Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Hakan Fidan, head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT).
ANKARA – Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to welcome Hariri with official ceremony.
ANKARA – Monitoring reactions to and developments in Turkey's Operation Olive Branch against PYD/PKK and Daesh terror groups in Afrin, northwestern Syria.
ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to announce foreign trade and tourism figures for 2017.
SPECIAL REPORT:
Reports show PYD/PKK's violations of human rights
By Satuk Buğra Kutlugün
ANKARA (AA) – Terrorist organization PKK's Syria branch PYD continues to violate human rights in the areas they managed to occupy, a report from the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces shows.
UK
LONDON – House of Lords to continue to debate on key purpose and principles of EU (Withdrawal) Bill.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel to attend Holocaust Remembrance Day event at parliament.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – Members of Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), international donor group for Palestine, to convene for extraordinary session. Ine Eriksen Soreide, Norway’s foreign minister, and Federica Mogherini, EU foreign policy chief — who will be co-chairing the session — to hold a joint news conference.
PALESTINE
SPECIAL REPORT :
Israel takes aim at African migrants, asylum-seekers
By Gharib Suleiman
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli authorities have notified African migrants and asylum-seekers — mainly those from Sudan and Eritrea — that they have three months to leave the country or face jail time.
