Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to visit Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.

WASHINGTON - Atlantic Council to hold discussion on future of US-Türkiye relations and Türkiye's transatlantic relationship in aftermath of Turkish presidential election. Among speakers is former US ambassador to Türkiye James Jeffrey.

WASHINGTON - Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold hearing on accountability for Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

NORWAY

OSLO - NATO foreign ministers gather for informal meeting.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili to address formal sitting of European Parliament in Brussels.

SLOVAKIA

BRATISLAVA - Annual security conference on Central and Eastern Europe to host French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, and Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Last Generation environmentalist activists expected to hold protests.

UK

LONDON - Train drivers who are members of ASLEF union to go on strike in ongoing dispute over pay.

LONDON - Trade deal between UK and New Zealand, and UK and Australia to take effect.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release GDP figures for Q1.

ANKARA - Turkish banking watchdog to reveal sector figures for April.

BERLIN - German statistical authority Destatis to share provisional inflation data for May.

SPORTS

BUDAPEST - Sevilla and Roma to face off in final of UEFA Europa League at Puskas Arena in Budapest.

PARIS - French Open, second Grand Slam tennis tournament of 2023 to be followed.

SPECIAL REPORT

More than a century later, families of Tulsa race massacre of 1921 still seeking reparations

By Darren Lyn

HOUSTON, US (AA) - More than 100 years after the Tulsa race riot of 1921, families of the victims are still seeking reparations from one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in US history which happened in the state of Oklahoma.

SPECIAL REPORT

EXPLAINER: What’s the Iran-Afghanistan water dispute?

By Syed Zafar Mehdi

TEHRAN, Iran (AA) - Last week, Iranian border guards and Taliban engaged in fierce cross-border clashes, resulting in the death of three people, two on the Iranian side and one on the Afghan side.

SPECIAL REPORT

EXPLAINER: Why have Kosovo-Serbia tensions flared up again?

By Emre Basaran

ISTANBUL (AA) - Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo have flared up once again since last weekend, this time as the aftermath of local elections that were boycotted by the Serb majority in northern Kosovo.

SPECIAL REPORT

Despite prospects for unified gov’t, Greek voters divided over election results

By Magda Panoutsopoulou

ATHENS (AA) - Little over a week ago, Greece’s ruling center-right party New Democracy (ND) won the parliamentary elections in a resounding landslide but fell short of a legislative majority.