Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Following worldwide pandemic situation, efforts to study and stem new omicron coronavirus variant.

PAKISTAN

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend exclusive session of Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss the simmering humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as well as hold bilateral contacts.

SPECIAL REPORT

Horrible memories of 'Bloody Christmas' in Cyprus live on after 58 years

By Ahmet Gencturk

ANKARA (AA) - The horrors of deadly, systematic attacks on Turkish Cypriots by extremist Greek Cypriot nationalist terror group EOKA remain fresh in memory as "Bloody Christmas," 58 years after these events led to hundreds killed and thousands displaced from their ancestral homes.

SPECIAL REPORT

US delay in appointing envoys to Africa, Middle East creates strategic void: Experts

By Hassan Isilow

JOHANNESBURG (AA) - Delays in the US Senate in approving ambassadors nominated to many African countries will create strategic voids that will be filled by other regional players at Washington’s expense, experts are warning.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkey becoming popular destination for digital nomads

By Rabia Iclal Turan

ISTANBUL (AA) - The first Industrial Revolution began over 200 years ago in Britain and spread to rest of the world, changing the way people work and make money.

SPECIAL REPORT

Paired with Turkish city, Somali capital on track to modernize

By Mohammed Dhaysane

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) - As Somalia recovers from two decades of civil war and lawlessness, its capital Mogadishu has seen "astonishing" growth in recent years and now wants to learn more from Turkish cities to modernize.