Diary
Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018
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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to welcome Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev at Presidential Complex. Two leaders to attend High-Level Strategic Council session, agreement signing ceremony and hold joint press conference.
ANKARA - Erdogan also to receive chief of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Hakan Fidan.
ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to hold 7th Monetary Policy Committee Meeting of this year.
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to release poultry and milk production statistics for July.
GERMANY
BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to meet International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer to discuss cooperation in addressing humanitarian crises.
UK
LONDON - UK cabinet to discuss a ‘no deal’ Brexit scenario.
US
WASHINGTON - State Secretary Mike Pompeo meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the State Department.
RUSSIA
VLADIVOSTOK - President Vladimir Putin to visit Vostok-2018 military manoeuvers.
MOSCOW - Energy Minister Alexander Novak to meet US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.
PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to pay an official visit to Pakistan.
IRAQ
BASRA - Tensions continue to mount in Iraq’s protest-hit southern city of Basra.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi political parties and coalitions continue to wrangle over parliamentary majority.
ERBIL - Northern Iraq’s Kurdish region gears up for parliamentary polls slated for Sept. 30.
SYRIA
IDLIB - Civilians in Idlib, Syria’s last opposition stronghold, brace for expected attack by Assad regime and its allies.
YEMEN
SANAA - War-weary Yemenis struggle with effects of recent plunge in value of local currency.
MAARIB - Yemen’s strategic Hudaydah province sees resumption of fighting between Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels.
PALESTINE
RAMALLAH - Following reactions to US decision to close Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington and cut funding to UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.
SPECIAL REPORT:
25 years on, Palestine sees Oslo Accords as ‘liability’
By Qais Abu Samra
RAMALLAH – Signed in 1993 between Israel and the PLO, many Palestinians now view the Oslo Accords -- which carved the occupied West Bank into three distinct zones -- as a ‘liability’.
SPECIAL REPORT:
Turkey lags behind in UNESCO heritage sites: Official
By Fatih Hafız Mehmet and Faruk Zorlu
ANKARA - Turkish National Commission for UNESCO president said Turkey is in a geography that founded civilizations and it lags behind in UNESCO World Heritage Site numbers, in comparison with the countries in its "league".
SPECIAL REPORT:
Despite reforms, Ethiopia faces electoral challenges
By Addis Getachew
ADDIS ABABA - Despite wide-ranging reforms underway in Ethiopia, the government seems to be well poised to make the same thing again: taking a knockout win in the 2020 election, which will be the sixth since 1995.
