ANKARA
Here are the main topics that Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to participate in an international symposium on ombudsmanship.
ISTANBUL – Police operations against PKK suspects as conflict continues in Turkey’s southeast.
SPECIAL REPORT
EBRD energy programs save Turkey $700mn
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) – In an interview with Anadolu Agency, the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s energy programs explains how efficiency investments in Turkey are saving money.
EUROPE
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein to hold a press conference about UN Human Rights Office report on Sri Lanka.
GENEVA – WHO and UNICEF to release report on reversing malaria.
GENEVA – UN Working Group to provide an update on the status of enforced disappearance throughout the world.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Prime Minister's Questions to be held in the U.K. parliament. Jeremy Corbyn to attend the session for the first time as new leader of the opposition Labour Party.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON – Second debate of the Republican presidential candidates for 2016 elections to take place.
WASHINGTON – Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Christine Wormuth and Army Gen. Lloyd Austin III from U.S. Central Command to provide testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding U.S. military operations to counter Daesh
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
YEMEN
ADEN - Yemeni government officially resumes duties from Aden after five months of exile in Saudi Arabia.
EGYPT
CAIRO - Mexican foreign minister in Egypt to follow up on developments relating to killing of foreign tourists by Egyptian security forces.
CAIRO – Rights group says 666 political prisoners received more than 10,000 years of combined jail time, handed down by military courts in August.
IRAQ
BAGHDAD – 11 people killed in multiple incidents of violence in Baghdad and Diyala.
IRAN
TEHRAN – Europe's largest hotelier, Accor, has taken over two hotels near Tehran’s airport – it is the first such move by a major Western group since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
SPECIAL REPORT
End of an era: The 'retirement' of Algeria's intel czar
By Ahmed Aziz
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – The ‘retirement’ of longtime Algerian intelligence chief Gen. Mohamed Mediene – who had held the post for a quarter of a century – effectively ends what some observers describe as Algeria’s “rule of the generals” era.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR – Thousands start to gather for ‘red shirts’ United People rally – a street demonstration in support of Prime Minister Najib Razak and seen as an assertion of Malay dominance in the country.
S. KOREA
SEOUL – Seoul and Washington up pressure on North Korea over possible major provocation.
THAILAND
BANGKOK – Journalist among three prominent figures released from military detention as junta leader says many reporters are "unethical" in their work practices.
