Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to greet Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia with official ceremony and hold joint press conference.

ANKARA – Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop to host Georgia’s Gakharia and Qatari Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani at parliament.

ANKARA – Vice President Fuat Oktay to meet Qatar's Al Thani.

ANKARA - Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu to meet Al Thani and Qatar's interior minister along with delegation.

ISTANBUL - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to attend 6th Istanbul Mediation Conference.

ANKARA - Monitoring developments related to agreements with Russia and US on Syria.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - With the participation of Syrian parties, day 2 of work of Constitutional Committee.

US

WASHINGTON - House Democrats to vote to formalize impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's Ukraine dealings.

RUSSIA

SVETLOGORSK - President Vladimir Putin to chair expanded meeting of State Council Presidium.

MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to meet with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Preminger.

UKRAINE

KIEV - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to chair NATO-Ukraine Commission meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky and address nation’s parliament.

ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA - Prime minister's office to hold press conference on recent violence in Oromia region that killed 80 people.

RWANDA

KIGALI - Rwanda to mark International Disaster Risk Reduction Day.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Monitoring developments in anti-corruption demonstrations in capital, southern cities.

LEBANON

BEIRUT - Monitoring developments in anti-tax demonstrations across nation.

SYRIA

ALEPPO / IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to release Foreign Trade Statistics for September.

ANKARA - TurkStat to announce tourism statistics for third quarter of 2019.

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

LUXEMBOURG - European Statistical Office to release unemployment statistics for September, flash estimate inflation data for October, and preliminary GDP estimate for third quarter.

SPORTS

ATHENS - Turkish basketball powerhouse Anadolu Efes to face Panathinaikos OPAP Athens in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Round six game at OAKA, Athens.

SPECIAL REPORT

Rampant Leicester City thrill fans in UK

By Muhammed Enes Calli

ANKARA (AA) - English football club Leicester City made an impressive start to the Premier League this season, sitting in third place in the table with 20 points and a nine-goal triumph for the record books.

SPECIAL REPORT

'We should learn from Gallipoli' battle: UK navy chief

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON (AA) - British armed forces should learn from mistakes made more than 100 years ago in a military campaign against Turkey, said the head of the Royal Navy.

SPECIAL REPORT

Vulture population in Pakistan shows tentative signs of recovery

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Once a prime candidate for extinction, the population of vultures in Pakistan has shown tentative signs of recovery in the past five years, but nature’s “garbage disposal” is still facing looming threats on several fronts, said experts.