ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – Monitoring developments in cease-fire brokered by Turkey and Russia for Idlib, province targeted by Assad regime and its allies, after regime shelling martyrs 4 Turkish soldiers.
UKRAINE
KIEV – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be welcomed with official ceremony by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
KIEV – Two leaders to attend high-level strategic council meeting, and to also hold joint news conference. Erdogan also due to attend business council meeting.
SAUDI ARABIA
JEDDAH – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend OIC’s ‘Emergency Open-Ended Executive Committee Ministerial Meeting’ to discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON – Democratic nomination race to kick into high gear with Iowa caucus.
WASHINGTON – Impeachment trial of President Donald Trump continues.
WASHINGTON / TEL AVIV / JERUSALEM – Following reactions to Trump’s so-called Middle East peace plan.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson to set out his government's priorities in upcoming negotiations with EU on trade and other issues.
UZBEKISTAN
TASHKENT – Central Asia-US ministerial meeting in C5+1 format, where foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and US meet, to be held in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Chancellor Merkel to meet Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz for talks on bilateral relations, EU and international issues.
UGANDA
KAMPALA – Israel Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Uganda for one-day official state visit.
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN – Mining Indaba, a mining summit, opens in Cape Town with large Turkish delegation and global mining CEOs.
CHINA
WUHAN – Following global spread of coronavirus outbreak and efforts to fight it.
SYRIA
ALEPPO / IDLIB / RAQQAH / HASAKAH – Monitoring developments in cease-fire brokered by Turkey and Russia for Idlib, province targeted by Assad regime and its allies.
LIBYA / RUSSIA / TURKEY
TRIPOLI / MOSCOW / ANKARA – Monitoring initiatives to resolve Libya crisis as well as cease-fire process.
IRAQ
BAGHDAD – Protests continue against new prime minister-designate.
PALESTINE
RAMALLAH / GAZA – Palestinians to stage protests against Trump's controversial peace plan.
ECONOMY
ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to release Consumer Price Index (Inflation) for January.
ANKARA – Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry to reveal Vessel Passage Statistics of Turkish Straits for 2019.
HATAY, Turkey – Turkish Exporters' Assembly to announce export figures for January.
SPECIAL REPORT
Ornamentation artist mirrors harmony of Iranian, Ottoman patterns
By Jeyhun Aliyev
ANKARA (AA) – An ornamentation artist of Iranian origin mirrors the harmony of Iranian and Ottoman patterns in her masterpieces.
SPECIAL REPORT
US: Iowa Caucuses explained
By Michael Hernandez
WASHINGTON (AA) – Hundreds of thousands of Iowa Democrats will take to caucuses across the state Monday in what has proven to be a historically decisive step in the party nominating process.
