Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday Aug. 1, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Trial of 486 suspected participants, plotters of last year’s defeated coup due to begin at 4th Heavy Penal Court.

ISTANBUL - Organization of Islamic Cooperation due to hold extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers on recent situation at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.

GEORGIA

TBILISI - Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili to meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who will also meet Georgian soldiers at NATO training center.

NIGERIA

LAGOS - #BringBackOurGirls movement to hold Abuja march to highlight fate of 113 abducted schoolgirls still in held by Boko Haram.

KENYA

NAIROBI - Civil servants to protest murder of elections board IT manager Chris Msando.

GERMANY

SPECIAL REPORT: Turkish rights head calls on Berlin to tackle terrorism

By Emin Avundukluoglu

ANKARA (AA) - Terrorists should not be able to treat Germany as their “backyard”, the head of Turkey's parliamentary Human Rights Commission has said.