Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/ breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Following latest developments in COVID-19 outbreak in Turkey, worldwide.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, as well as European Council President Charles Michel.

US

WASHINGTON - Senate to vote to confirm retired Gen. Lloyd Austin leads Defense Department.

WASHINGTON - White House Spokeswoman Jen Psaki to hold press conference.

THE ECONOMY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria to attend virtual opening ceremony of OECD's Istanbul Center.

ANKARA - Turkey's Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges to share establishment and liquidation statistics for 2020.

ANKARA - Turkish Patent and Trademark Office to share patent, trademark, design and utility model application statistics for 2020.

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to reveal household tourism statistics for third quarter of 2020.

SPECIAL REPORT

Curbs vex relocated Rohingya on Bangladeshi island

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - A growing discontent was visible on the face of Mohammad, who has been relocated among many of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote island in southern Bangladesh's Bay of Bengal.

SPECIAL REPORT

Israeli army turns Palestinian farmlands barren

By Salam Abu Sharar

SALFIT, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian farmer Khitam Dar Mousa, 49, fainted when she saw the Israeli army invading her fields and uprooting olive and other trees, that her family had nurtured for the past 15 years.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinian devoted to caring for animals dies of COVID

By Salam Abu Sharar

JERUSALEM (AA) - It was after the dawn prayer during Ramadan in 2016 that Saleh Zighari spoke with Ghassan Younes for the first time while Ghassan was cleaning the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and he greeted and joked with Saleh and his friends.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish woman cares for over 180 street animals

By Merve Berker

ANKARA (AA) – A woman in Turkey tries to look after 137 dogs and 45 cats that are homeless with her own money and donations she receives from animal lovers.