Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday Jan. 11, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Turkey’s President and ruling AK Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet with AK Party lawmakers.

ANKARA - Erdogan also to address village heads at a neighborhood leaders' meeting at Presidential Complex.

ANKARA - Erdogan to separately receive Turkey's National Intelligence Chief Hakan Fidan, Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim at Presidential Complex.

ANKARA - Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag to receive Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid at Cankaya palace on the sidelines of the joint economic commission.

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency Editors’ Desk to host Health Minister Ahmet Demircan.

ANKARA - Turkey's statistics authority, TurkStat, will announce foreign trade figures for November.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May to announce a 25 year environment plan and pledge to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc CDU/CSU and Social Democrats to meet for final round of exploratory coalition talks.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, EU foreign chief Federica Mogherini, French Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian and British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Jawed Zarif.

SYRIA

DAMASCUS/IDLIB - Monitoring ongoing regime airstrikes and artillery attacks on civilians in Syria, especially in Idlib province.

IRAN

TEHRAN - Monitoring developments in the wake of anti-government protests across Iran.

TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS

LEFKOSA - Monitoring developments following unofficial results in snap election.

SOUTH AFRICA

PRETORIA - President Jacob Zuma to host his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta during a working visit where they will discuss bilateral relations.