ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Friday, July 24, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – Turkish warplanes hit Daesh targets inside Syria.
ISTANBUL – Major police anti-terror operation across Istanbul.
EUROPE
U.K.
LONDON (AA) – A special report on the fragments of what is believed to be among the oldest existing copies of the Quran recently discovered in the U.K.’s University of Birmingham.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS
–Turkey's EU Minister Volkan Bozkir set to participate in informal meeting European affairs ministers.
GREECE
WESTERN THRACE
–Turkey's EU Minister Volkan Bozkir to visit Komotini, Western Thrace and meet with local Turkish community.
AMERICAS
NEW YORK
- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to speak at Council on Foreign Relations about Iran nuclear deal.
WASHINGTON
- Demonstrators to gather at Ankara's embassy in Washington for solidarity demonstration following recent attacks in Turkey.
SOUTH ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT
Afghan warlord turned vice-president leads security
By Shadi Khan Saif
KABUL (AA) – With the security situation deteriorating in Afghanistan's north, Vice-President Abdul Rasheed Dostum, a veteran warlord who played a crucial role in Afghanistan's civil wars, is taking the lead.
SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK - 17-year-old Thai schoolgirl challenges military junta by rejecting its imposed ‘moral values’ school examination and accusing the military regime of "political corruption”.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - Australian nurse who says he was forced to join Daesh after being injured in an airstrike in Syria expected to be arrested upon voluntary return to Australia.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Seoul police arrest man who allegedly posted a letter on the White House homepage threatening to kill U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert, who was injured in a knife attack earlier this year.
