Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TÜRKİYE

ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to separately meet with his Costa Rican counterpart Arnoldo André-Tinoco and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, visiting Türkiye to convey condolences after last week’s earthquakes.

FRANCE

PARIS - Monitoring nationwide protests and strikes against government’s proposed pension reforms.

UK

LONDON - Poland's President Andrzej Duda to visit.

ESTONIA

TALLINN - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expected to visit for talks on bilateral ties, support for Ukraine.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to host screening of Till, telling story of Mamie Till-Mobley, who pursued justice after 1955 lynching of her 14-year-old son Emmett Till.

WASHINGTON - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to discuss US strategy on Ukraine at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to lead Republican congressional delegation to US-Mexico border in state of Arizona.

SPORTS

BARCELONA - UEFA Europa League's playoff stage to start with first leg between Barcelona and Manchester United.

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THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Central Bank to release private sector foreign debt figures for December and foreign reserve data for January.

SPECIAL REPORT

Azerbaijani students, lecturers refuse to leave Türkiye’s quake-hit Kahramanmaras

By Mehmet Solmaz

KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye (AA) - Sutcu Imam University in Kahramanmaras, the city at the epicenter of last week’s powerful earthquakes that killed thousands, has been hosting dozens of Azerbaijani students and lecturers.

SPECIAL REPORT

EU expansion crucial to ‘maintaining peace’ in Bosnia, across the globe

By Leila Nezirevic

ZAGREB, Croatia (AA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina gained European Union candidacy status last December, nearly two decades after the country stated its desire to join the bloc, but the question of eventual EU membership remains.

SPECIAL REPORT

Laden with ‘good wishes, message of peace,’ China’s rescue team returns home from quake-hit Türkiye

By Riyaz ul Khaliq

ADANA, Türkiye (AA) - “We may not be able to take the pigeon with us … but we understand the message you have given to us and we will pass it on to our people,” the leader of a Chinese rescue team told an old man in southern Türkiye’s earthquake-hit province of Hatay.

SPECIAL REPORT

With little rest, quake relief effort in Türkiye working round the clock, says British relief worker

By Burak Bir​​​​​​​

LONDON (AA) - Despite difficult conditions, all rescue and relief teams on the ground in southern Türkiye are working around the clock to help the victims of last week's deadly earthquakes, according to a British volunteer, who said he has never seen anything “as bad as this."