Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at Dolmabahce presidential working office.

ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold joint press conference with his German counterpart Heiko Maas.

ANKARA - Following developments on Turkey's deal with US, Russia on Syria.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Monitoring developments in anti-corruption demonstrations in capital after 30 people killed in Friday protests.

SYRIA

ALEPPO / IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkey ‘vibrant environment’ for UK investors: Consul

By Zeynep Kahveci and Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) – Britain’s consul general in Istanbul praised Turkey’s “very vibrant environment” for British businesses.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkey: Syrian women find peace, trade at soap workshop

By Rabia Iclal Turan

MARDIN, Turkey (AA) - Hand-in-hand with locals, Syrian women who took shelter in a Turkish border city are taking their lives back through making natural soap with support from a nonprofit group.

SPECIAL REPORT

Climate refugees: Forsaken migrants in the environment

By Burak Bir

ISTANBUL (AA) - Climate-related environmental disasters disrupt the right to life just as they hurt human health, according to the head of a refugee rights group.

SPECIAL REPORT

What is life cycle of plastic in Turkey?

By Erdogan Cagatay Zontur and Dilara Hamit

ANKARA (AA) - What happens to a plastic bottle after you throw it into the waste bin? Experts say almost any plastic can be recycled, if you do it right.

SPECIAL REPORT

Cappadocia trail run racing past global rivals

By Tuba Sahin

ANKARA (AA) - At just five years old, the annual trail run in Turkey's scenic Cappadocia region is racing past its global peers in growth, an executive from its main sponsor told Anadolu Agency.

SPECIAL REPORT

Thorny electoral crisis simmers in Afghanistan

By Shadi Khan Saif

KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) - A thorny electoral crisis is simmering in Afghanistan as authorities have failed to deliver preliminary results even a month after the landmark polls and as an insurgency rages on.