Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, April 15, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias at presidential complex.

ANKARA - Erdogan later to hold meeting with Central Decision and Executive Board members of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s youth branches.

ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold joint news conference with his Greek counterpart Dendias.

ANKARA - Monitoring developments in coronavirus pandemic in Turkey, worldwide.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to meet with Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Executive Committee.

WASHINGTON - Biden administration expected to sanction Russia in response to hack of SolarWinds and election interference.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin to hold joint meeting of State Council Presidium and Agency for Strategic Initiatives via video conference.

MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to hold separate meetings with his Libyan counterpart Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri.

MOSCOW - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to hold news conference.

MOSCOW - Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic to arrive in Moscow for working visit.

GERMANY

BERLIN - German Health Minister Jens Spahn to hold news conference on latest developments with respect to COVID-19 pandemic.

MYANMAR

YANGON/ANKARA - Monitoring developments amid brutal crackdown on anti-coup protests in Myanmar.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - TurkStat to reveal housing sales statistics for March and Q1.

ANKARA - Central Bank to hold its fourth Monetary Policy Committee in 2021 to determine interest rates.

ANKARA - Treasury and Finance Ministry to announce Turkish central government budget balance table for March.

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to release data for private sector external debt for February.

ANKARA - Industry and Technology Ministry to announce investment incentive figures for February.

SPORTS

ANTALYA, Turkey - 56th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey's fifth stage to be run on 160.3-kilometer (99.6 miles) Kemer-Elmali (Gogubeli) track in country's southwest.

VILLARREAL/ROME/PRAGUE/MANCHESTER - UEFA Europa League quarterfinals phase to end with Thursday's matches: Villarreal-Dinamo Zagreb, Roma-Ajax, Slavia Prague-Arsenal and Manchester United-Granada.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish businesses set to tackle energy, healthcare projects in Libya

By Tuba Sahin

ANKARA (AA) - Turkish businesses will tackle new projects in the energy, healthcare, and construction sectors in Libya as promised during the prime minister's visit to the Turkish capital Ankara this week, according to the head of Turkey's Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK).

SPECIAL REPORT

Pakistani artist composes song for ties among Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan

By Dilara Hamit

ANKARA (AA) - A Pakistani nasheed artist has made a music video to draw attention to Turkish, Pakistani, and Azerbaijani relations.

SPECIAL REPORT

OPINION - Kashmir dispute: A neglected issue

By Ghulam Nabi Fai

WASHINGTON (AA) - Benjamin Franklin, a signer of the US Declaration of Independence from Britain and the man responsible for negotiating a treaty between the colonies and France, asked: "When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"