ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday March 15, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri, and later to attend award ceremony.
ANKARA – Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman to host al-Jabouri.
ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to release labour force statistics for December 2017.
ANKARA – Finance Ministry to release government budget balance figures for February.
ANKARA – Following reactions, activities, and events marking 7th anniversary of Syrian revolution.
AZERBAIJAN
BAKU – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend 6th Global Baku Forum.
BAKU – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend first Quadrilateral Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran. Cavusoglu to later hold bilateral meetings.
SYRIA
IDLIB/AZAZ/AFRIN – Monitoring Turkey's continuing Operation Olive Branch against terrorist groups YPG/PKK-Daesh in Afrin, northwestern Syria.
ITALY
ROME – Turkish National Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli to attend ministerial meeting of International Support Group for Lebanese Army and Internal Security.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Representatives of German Muslim groups to hold press conference on recent attacks against mosques nationwide.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW – Russia expected to respond to Britain’s expulsion of 23 diplomats over poisoning of former Russian spy and his daughter, raising Russian-UK tensions.
SPECIAL REPORT
Turkish motorcycle racer supports Syrian refugees
By Cansu Dikme and Meryem Goktas
ANKARA (AA) – Ace Turkish motorcycle racer says he regularly visits Syrian refugee families living in his hometown in the northwestern Sakarya province.
