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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday March 15, 2017

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday March 15, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

AFYONKARAHISAR - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend several large inauguration ceremonies.

ARDAHAN / ARTVIN - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to address public rallies.

AMASYA - Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to attend his party's public rally.

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency Editors' Desk to host Labor and Social Security Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu.

MALATYA - Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus to attend meetings and inauguration ceremonies.

ISTANBUL - Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek to address opening of Turkey-Ukraine Business Forum.

ANKARA - Turkish statistical authority TurkStat to announce labor figures for December 2016.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON- British Prime Minister Theresa May to take questions in parliament after approval of bill giving government the power to initiate formal Brexit negotiations.

FRANCE

STRASBOURG - Re-elected European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker deliver statements to European Parliament on the March 9-10 European Council.

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande meets with new Gambian President Adama Barrow.

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON - Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold hearing on Syria.

NEW YORK - Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya to address UN General Assembly meeting on women's empowerment, days after she was deported by the Netherlands amid political tensions.

PAKISTAN

SPECIAL REPORT:

Pakistan's long-overdue census begins

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Pakistan Wednesday began its long-overdue census of its ever-growing populace, with some 200,000 soldiers assisting civilians as observers point out procedural inadequacies such as not acknowledging all the country’s languages.

SUDAN

KHARTOUM - Head of Libya's UN-backed unity government to meet with Sudanese president in Khartoum.

LIBYA

TRIPOLI - Fighting continues in Libya's “oil crescent” between forces loyal to Tobruk-based parliament and militia group.

KAZAKHSTAN

ASTANA - Third round of Syrian peace talks continues under auspices of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, with statement due afterwards.

TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS

LEFKOSA - Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci to receive UN Cyprus Envoy Espen Barth Eide.

THE NETHERLANDS

AMSTERDAM - Dutch voters to cast ballots in close parliamentary election.

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