Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Sunday, March 18, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

CANAKKALE - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend ceremonies marking the 103rd anniversary of victory in Battle of Canakkale. Erdogan also to attend groundbreaking ceremonies of 1915 Canakkale Bridge and Malkara-Canakkale Highway.

ANKARA - Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to hold party congress.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - Russia holds presidential election.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish Red Crescent becomes 'more effective'

By Diyar Guldogan

ANKARA (AA) - The Turkish Red Crescent is modernizing its internal structure in order to make it "more effective", the head of the aid body Kerem Kinik told Anadolu Agency.

SYRIA

IDLIB/AZAZ/AFRIN - Monitoring Turkey's continuing Operation Olive Branch against terrorist groups YPG/PKK-Daesh in Afrin, northwestern Syria.