Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday, March 22, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet Prime Minister Binali Yildirim at presidential complex.

ISTANBUL - Erdogan to meet Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at Tarabya Palace.

ANKARA - Yildirim to attend Industrial Competence Evaluation and Scoring System meeting at JW Marriott Hotel.

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency Editors’ Desk to host Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

ANKARA - Main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to meet ambassadors of EU countries.

ANKARA - Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman to leave for Geneva to attend 138th Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union.

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release sectoral confidence indices for March.

ANKARA - Central Bank to release capacity utilization rate of manufacturing industry for March.

SYRIA

IDLIB/AZAZ/AFRIN - Desk to Monitor Turkey-led Operation Olive Branch against terrorist groups YPG/PKK-Daesh in Syria's Afrin after clearing of town center.

MALTA

VALLETTA - Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci to attend Turkey-Malta Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) meeting and signing ceremony.

FRANCE

PARIS - Public sector workers go on strike in protest against government's proposed reforms that were announced on Feb. 1.​

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Commemorative service to be held in British parliament to mark first anniversary of terror attack that killed five people in Westminster.

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May to travel to Brussels to attend European Council meeting.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - EU leaders meet for European Council summit.

PALESTINE

RAMALLAH - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to visit occupied West Bank for talks with Palestinian president. ​

ETHIOPIA

SPECIAL REPORT: Ethiopian women fight fistula with determination

By Seleshi Tessema

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Many visibly withdrawn and painfully shy young women are resting on the benches of the waiting room of the hospital, secluded from the hustle and bustle of the capital Addis Ababa. They all suffer from fistula, a disease caused during childbirth which results in the loss of bladder or rectum control.