Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Turkish President and AK Party Chairperson Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend opening ceremony of 2021-2022 Higher Education Academic Year at Bestepe National Congress and Cultural Center. He also due to chair meetings of the party's Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK), Central Executive Board (MYK).

ANKARA - Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop to meet with head of Inter-Parliamentary Union Duarte Pacheco in Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Sentop to receive Kyrgyz Minister of Energy and Industry Doskul Bekmurzaev.

ANKARA - Following COVID-19 normalization process in Turkey, virus variants, worldwide pandemic situation.

GAZIANTEP - UNDP will open Mechanical Biological Treatment and Biogas Facility (MBT) in Gaziantep in the scope of the Syria Crisis Response and Resilience Programme in Turkey, which is funded by EU.

US

WASHINGTON - Senate subcommittee to hold hearing, titled 'Protecting Kids Online,' to be attended by Facebook whistleblower as witness.

WASHINGTON - House Foreign Affairs Committee to hold hearing, titled 'Afghanistan 2001-2021: Evaluating the Withdrawal and US Policies.’

AFGHANISTAN

KABUL - Monitoring situation in Afghanistan after Taliban's formation of interim government.

GEORGIA

TELAVI - Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar to attend meeting of defense ministers of Georgie, Turkey, Azerbaijan.

HUNGARY

BUDAPEST - Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul to speak at Council of Europe Conference of Ministers of Justice. He is also due to hold bilateral meetings with Hungarian, Azerbaijani counterparts.

POLAND

VARSAW - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend 7th Warsaw Security Forum. He is also due to meet with Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto, head of Poland’s lower house of parliament Elzbieta Witek, Organization for Security and Co-operation Secretary General in Europe Helga Schmid.

ECONOMY

WASHINGTON - US Commerce Department to announce trade balance for August.

PARIS - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development area annual inflation for August to be revealed.

SPECIAL REPORT

Long hours, low pay spells doom for Tanzania’s teachers

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) - Munga Mtengeti left Hekima Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's capital, when the school bell rang, signaling the end of the day's classes. He appeared fatigued, yet he was still lugging a stack of students' exercise books home to check, indicating that the day has not ended for him.

SPECIAL REPORT

Plight of teachers in Yemen goes ‘unheard’

By Mohammed Alragawi

ISTANBUL (AA) - Besides being denied salaries, teachers in war-ravaged Yemen are subjected to killings, kidnappings, displacements, and forced disappearances, claims the teacher’s body.