ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – Parliament Speaker Binali Yildirim to head to Azerbaijan on official visit.
ANKARA – Turkish Central Bank to release international reserves and foreign currency liquidity figures for July.
LITHUANIA
VILNIUS – Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and hold joint news conference with counterpart Linas Linkevicius.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary James Mattis to hold press briefing with Joint chiefs of staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford.
NEW YORK – UN Security Council to discuss situations in Syria and Myanmar.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab to visit Brussels for continuing exit negotiations with EU officials.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel to meet Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.
BERLIN – Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to meet Irish counterpart Simon Coveney to discuss bilateral relations, Brexit and EU issues.
SYRIA
ALEPPO / IDLIB / HOMS – Monitoring Syrian civil war, Assad regime attacks.
YEMEN
SANAA – Following developments in civil war.
