ANKARA
1- Turkey's President Abdullah Gul will welcome President of Benin Thomas Boni Yayi at the Presidential Cankaya Palace and they will have a meeting. (11:25/11:30 a.m.)
- Gul will receive Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean at the Presidential Cankaya Palace. (2:00 p.m.)
2- Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek will receive Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean at his office in Ankara. (3:00 p.m.)
3- Turkey's Deputy Premier Besir Atalay will receive UN Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos at the AFAD (Turkey's Presidency of Disaster and Emergency Management) in Ankara. Following their meeting, UN and AFAD will sign a cooperation protocol. (10:30 a.m.)
4- Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu will meet with President of Benin Thomas Boni Yayi in Ankara.
- Davutoglu will meet his Romanian counterpart Corlatean at the Turkish MFA. They will sign a protocol updating a cooperation protocol dating back 2008, and appear in a joint press conference. (10:30 a.m./11:15 a.m./12:15 p.m.)
5- Turkish Minister of Economy Zafer Caglayan will meet with Pascal Lamy, President of WTO, and attend a luncheon Turkish Exporters' Assembly will host in Lamy's honor in Istanbul. (12:30 p.m.)
6- Turkish Minister of National Education Nabi Avci will attend the 2nd term meeting of Turkey-Serbia Joint Economic Commission at Turkey's Ministry of Economy in Ankara. (11:00 a.m.)
7- Turkey's statistical institute (TurkStat) will announce the developments in foreign trade indices in January. (10:00 a.m.)
8- Turkey's Fenerbahce soccer team will host Victoria Plzen of Czech Republic in the second leg of round of 16 of UEFA Europa League in Istanbul. (10:05 p.m. Turkish local time)
