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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday Feb. 2, 2017

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday Feb. 2, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Presidential Palace. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to hold joint news conference with Merkel.

ANKARA - Leader of opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu to meet Merkel at German embassy.

ANKARA - Development Minister Lutfi Elvan to attend Anadolu Agency’s Editors’ Desk.

ANKARA - Erdogan to meet tourism sector representatives.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

SANTO DOMINGO - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet counterpart Miguel Vargas, hold news conference. Cavusoglu to also meet President Danilo Medina.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Government to publish parliamentary proposal on leaving EU.

FRANCE

PARIS - President Francois Hollande to meet Socialist presidential candidate Benoit Hamon.

STRASBOURG- European Court of Human Rights to rule on Russian presidential candidate Alexei Navalny’s claims of rights violations due to repeated arrests, prosecutions.

HUNGARY

BUDAPEST - Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

SARAJEVO - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to visit.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis arrives in South Korea, expected to reassure Seoul of continued support.

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