Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TÜRKİYE

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet his Hungarian counterpart Katalin Novak to discuss bilateral ties and regional and international issues.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to host leader-level plenary session of Summit for Democracy. He will later meet Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez at the White House.

WASHINGTON - US House Committee on Armed Services to hold hearing with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

NEW YORK - Turkish first lady Emine Erdogan to meet Muslim Americans at Turkevi Center.

NEW YORK - UN General Assembly to vote on draft resolution seeking International Court of Justice’s opinion on climate justice.

TENNESSEE - Nashville Mayor John Cooper and Council Member Russ Pulley to host citywide candlelight vigils to honor victims and survivors of school shooting that claimed six lives.

GERMANY

BERLIN - British King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla to arrive in Berlin on their first state visit.

BERLIN - Chancellor Olaf Scholz to answer questions from lawmakers in parliament.

UK

LONDON - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to answer questions from lawmakers in the House of Commons.

EDINBURGH - Humza Yousaf, the first-ever Muslim elected Scotland’s first minister, to be sworn into office.

LONDON - The Royal Blood sculpture, which depicts a bloodstained royal coat of arms, to be projected onto St. Paul’s Cathedral in a protest over Prince Harry’s claims about the number of people he killed in Afghanistan.

FRANCE

PARIS - Garbage collectors to suspend strike, which has left Paris teeming with trash, after 23 days.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - UN Human Rights Council to debate on human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, followed by debate on racial discrimination.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency to release banking sector data for February.

SPORTS

MADRID - Fenerbahce Beko to face Real Madrid in Round 31 of Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.

SPECIAL REPORT

Washington does not understand Türkiye’s security concerns in Syria: Former US envoy

By Rabia Iclal Turan

WASHINGTON (AA) – Washington does not understand Türkiye’s security concerns in northern Syria and tends to think of the situation as a “security problem” when it is a “political problem,” according to the last US ambassador to serve in Syria.

SPECIAL REPORT

France must end police brutality, racist ideology: Expert

By Leila Nezirevic

LONDON (AA) – In the French town of Maurepas in the poor neighborhood of Rennes, Babacar Gueye, a 27-year-old Senegalese man, suffered an anxiety attack and cut himself with a table knife late at night on Dec. 2, 2015.

SPECIAL REPORT

In Austria, women wearing headscarves face more anti-Muslim racism than men, says activist

By Rabia Ali​​​​​​​

ISTANBUL (AA) – Muslim women wearing the headscarf in Austria face more anti-Muslim hate and discrimination than men, according to a local activist working against Islamophobia.