Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to chair meetings of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK) and Central Executive Board (MYK) at party headquarters.

ANKARA - Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop to meet Ersin Tatar, newly elected president of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).

ANKARA - Following latest developments in Eastern Mediterranean.

ANKARA - Following latest developments on novel coronavirus outbreak in Turkey, worldwide.

US

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump to hold election rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada.

NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss developments in Syria.

UZBEKISTAN

TASHKENT - Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar to meet his Uzbek counterpart Bahadir Kurbanov.

AZERBAIJAN

BAKU - Monitoring cease-fire between Azerbaijan, Armenia to stop clashes in Upper Karabakh region and regional developments.

LIBYA

TRIPOLI - Following preliminary talks to find solution to end hostilities between Libya’s warring parties.

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

SRINAGAR - Kashmiris observe 73rd anniversary of landing of Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, to mark beginning of suffering of Kashmiri people, as Black Day.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - TurkStat to reveal Road Motor Vehicles figures for September.

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to release data for International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity for September.

ANKARA - Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan to attend virtually-held signing ceremony of second term Turkish-Dutch Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) meeting.

SPECIAL REPORT

Kashmir observes birth of conflict

By Hilal Mir

SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – For over the past 30-years, a large section of people across the divide in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan have been observing Oct. 27, as Black Day. But in India, Oct. 26 is celebrated as the day, when Kashmir acceded to India.

SPECIAL REPORT

COVID-19 infodemic: Deadly threat of misinformation

By Magda Panoutsopoulou

ATHENS (AA) - Last February and only a couple of months after the appearance of the novel coronavirus in China, the world was getting ready to face one more challenge; the abundance of fake medical information and conspiracy theories that would send thousands in the streets around the world.

SPECIAL REPORT

Girl coders aim to bridge tech gender gap in Tanzania

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) - It’s a beautiful Saturday morning in Ukonga, a dusty neighborhood in Tanzania’s largest city of Dar es Salaam, and Neema Lucas is glued to her dark computer screen, frequently striking a keyboard as she types commands.

SPECIAL REPORT

OPINION - Oct. 27: Tyranny continues in Kashmir

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai

WASHINGTON (AA) - Oct. 27 marks the beginning of Indian occupation of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is forever scarred in the collective minds of the Kashmiri people as the day they became occupied.

SPECIAL REPORT

Vivid memories of tribesman, who fought in Kashmir

By Islamuddin Sajid

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – A resident of Dir province of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, old and frail Akhunzada Bacha Khan, 99, has vivid memories of his marching to Jammu and Kashmir in October 1947 along with fellow tribesmen to liberate the region from the "unpopular" Hindu ruler.

SPECIAL REPORT

Tunisia’s democracy ‘resilient’ decade after revolution

By Adel Al-Thabti

TUNIS (AA) – It is almost a decade since the Tunisian revolution, sparked by the self-immolation of Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010, encouraged a series of demonstrations across several Arab countries leading to what came to be known as the Arab Spring.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Boycott French products' bolstering in Bangladesh

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – “Boycott French products” movement is seemingly bolstering in the world’s third-largest Muslim majority country, Bangladesh.

SPECIAL REPORT

India killed 250,000 Muslims in Kashmir in 1947: AJK President

By Islamuddin Sajid

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) - Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has accused India of carrying out the first genocide in Kashmir, killing 250,000 Muslims in 1947.