Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, April 8, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend Istanbul's Yenikapi Square ahead of an upcoming constitutional referendum on April 16. President also to give interview to local 24 and 360 TV networks.

ISTANBUL - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim also to attend the gathering at Yenikapi Square.

ANKARA - Reactions to U.S. airstrike on Syrian airbase to be followed.

FRANCE

PARIS - Basque separatist group ETA says it will disarm after a four-decade campaign of violence for Basque state, independent of Spain and France.

SWEDEN

STOCKHOLM - Follow developments on terror attack, killing four people when a vehicle struck pedestrians on busy shopping street.

LEBANON

SPECIAL REPORT:

Saudi cleric slams Arab ‘silence’ following Idlib attack

By Muhammed Ali Akman

BEIRUT (AA) - Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah decries perceived Arab indifference to this week’s chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib.​