Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, April 30, 2019

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend 14th International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF'19) at Tuyap Fair and Exhibition Center.

ISTANBUL - Defense Industry Presidency head Ismail Demir to attend signing ceremony for co-production of Turkish-Indonesian medium-weight tank mass production project.

ANKARA - President Erdogan also due to attend 4th Commercial Counsellors Conference at presidential complex. Later set to attend his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s Central Executive Board (MYK) meeting at party headquarters.

ANKARA - Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop to receive Czech Ambassador Pavel Kafka.

ANKARA - Turkey’s statistical authority, TurkStat, to release tourism statistics for first quarter of 2019 and foreign trade figures for March.

ANKARA - Culture and Tourism Ministry to release number of arriving-departing foreigners and citizens figures for March.

ANKARA - Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) to release sectoral figures for March.

ANKARA - Central Bank to release second inflation report of 2019.

ANKARA - European Statistical Office (Eurostat) to release unemployment figures for March.

SLOVAKIA

BRATISLAVA - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend 4th Visegrad Group (V4)+Turkey Foreign Ministers Meeting.

BRATISLAVA - Cavusoglu also due to have bilateral meeting with Slovenian counterpart Miroslav Lajcak, who is also European affairs minister.

UK

LONDON - Chairing Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Theresa May expected to brief it on ongoing Brexit talks with Labour Party.

US

WASHINGTON - Former Kosovar President Atifete Jahjaga to testify at House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on “Kosovo's Wartime Victims: The Quest for Justice.”

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi for talks on bilateral relations, regional issues.

JAPAN

TOKYO - Emperor Akihito of Japan will hand over his throne to his successor Prince Naruhito.

SYRIA

ALEPPO / IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

SPECIAL REPORT

West floated 55 peace plans since 1949: Historian

By Ali Abo Rezeg

ISTANBUL – The West has floated nearly 55 plans for Middle East peace since 1949, all of which were against Palestinian interests, according to renowned Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta.

SPECIAL REPORT

Iranian oil dilemma for Turkey and India

By Iftikhar Gilani

ANKARA - The recent U.S. decision to end sanctions waivers that enabled several major economies to continue buying crude oil from Iran has put Turkey and India on the horns of a dilemma. Both countries have significant energy dependence on Tehran.