ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday, April 5, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to separately receive Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, and Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar at Presidential Complex.
ANKARA – Erdogan also separately to receive Iraqi Ambassador Hussain Mahmood Fadhlalla Alkhateeb, New Zealand Ambassador Wendy Jane Hinton, and Serbian Ambassador Zoran Markovic.
ANKARA – Yildirim to travel to Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar for official visit.
SPECIAL REPORT
Experts voice concern over anti-Turkish bias in Greece
By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet
ANKARA – The Greek media is publishing more negative stories about Turkey than the Turkish media does likewise about Greece, according to one international relations expert.
SYRIA
IDLIB / AZAZ / AFRIN – Monitoring Turkish-led Operation Olive Branch against YPG/PKK-Daesh terror groups in Afrin, Syria.
FRANCE
PARIS – Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik to meet his French counterpart Nathalie Loiseau as well as Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and hold press conference.
AZERBAIJAN
BAKU – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement and hold bilateral talks.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Russian Embassy to hold press conference on recent developments in case of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal.
LONDON – “Hello, I am a Muslim ” activity to be held by Islam Toplumu Milli Gorus (IGMG).
LONDON – Turkish composer Can Atilla's Symphony No: 2, Gallipoli, – The 57th Regiment, to be performed at Gallipoli Friendship Concert.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW – Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to hold talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
MOSCOW – Lavrov to meet Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary-General Thomas Greminger.
MOSCOW – Defense Ministry to host day two of 7th Moscow Conference on International Security.
JAPAN
TOKYO – Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag to meet Health Minister Katsunobu Kato.
