ANKARA
Here are the main topics that the English News Desk of the Anadolu Agency will cover on May 8, 2013:
1- Turkish President Abdullah Gul will return to Turkey upon completing his formal visit to Portugal.
2- Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kover is visiting Turkey.
- Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Cemil Cicek will meet with Kover and host a dinner in his honor in Ankara. (11:30 a.m./8:00 p.m.)
- Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will receive Kover at the official residency of prime ministry in Ankara. (3:30 p.m.)
3- Turkey's Deputy PM Bulent Arinc will receive Arab journalists, who are guests of AA and Directorate General of Press and Information, at the HQ of Prime Ministry in Ankara. (12:00)
4- Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis will separately receive Ambassador of Slovakia in Ankara Milan Zachar and Kirstin de Mulder, the Director General of International Arts Festival (Europalia), at his office in Ankara. (11:30 a.m./1:15 p.m.)
- Bagis will separately receive Brazilian Ambassador in Ankara Marcelo Jardim and Laszlo Andor, the EU commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion at the parliament.(4:30 p.m./6:30 p.m.)
5- Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu who is currently in Bosnia-Herzogovina, will attend the opening ceremony of Sarajevo Mawlawi Center and then attend Turkey-Bosnia Herzegovinia-Serbia Foreign Ministers Trilateral Consultation Meeting.
- Following bilateral talks with his counterparts, Davutoglu will then appear in a joint press conference and the working banquet.
- Davutoglu will visit the Bosnia Herzegovina Trilateral Presidential Council members.
6- Turkey's Statistical Institute (TurkStat) will announce Industrial Production Index for March 2013. (10:00 a.m.)
