ANKARA
Here are the main topics that the English News Desk of the Anadolu Agency will cover on May 2, 2013:
1- President Abdullah Gul will receive and meet separately
10.00 - Head of national intelligence (MIT) Hakan Fidan
11.00 - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at Çankaya presidential palace.
- President will also attend to a dinner organised for the promotion of Oxford Islamic Studies Centre in Istanbul at 19.30.
2- Main opposition party CHP's leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu will meet separately the President and Prime Minister of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in Nicosia.
3- Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan will deliver a speech at 43.St.Gallen Symposium in Switzerland.
4- 3rd Arab-Turk Social Sciences Congress will start at Istanbul University, and Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay will deliver a speech at 11.00.
5- International Forum for Woman Enterpreneurs will be held in Istanbul. Fatma Sahin, the Minister for Family and Social Policies and Zafer Caglayan, Economy minister will attend.
6- Energy Minister Taner Yildiz will hold meetings with a delegation from Niger headed by ministers - Ankara, 11.00.
7- Turkish Parliament General Assembly will debate new PTT bill which will allow the institution to become a commercial company.
8- Parliament's Human Rights Commission will debate a report on Syrians sheltered at "tent cities" in Adiyaman and Sanliurfa provinces. Report was prepared by a sub-committee.
9- Regional heads of "Wise men and women" the group assigned by the government to promote the solution process on Kurdish issue will meet Anadolu Agency editors.
10- UEFA semi final second leg matches:
- Fenerbahce vs Benfica in Lisbon
- Chelsea vs Basel in London
(Kick off: 22.05)
All times are Turkish - GMT+2
