Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday, April 5, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to separately receive Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, and Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar at Presidential Complex.

ANKARA – Erdogan also separately to receive Iraqi Ambassador Hussain Mahmood Fadhlalla Alkhateeb, New Zealand Ambassador Wendy Jane Hinton, and Serbian Ambassador Zoran Markovic.

ANKARA – Yildirim to travel to Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar for official visit.

SPECIAL REPORT

Experts voice concern over anti-Turkish bias in Greece

By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet

ANKARA - The Greek media is publishing more negative stories about Turkey than the Turkish media does likewise about Greece, according to one international relations expert.

SYRIA

IDLIB / AZAZ / AFRIN - Monitoring Turkish-led Operation Olive Branch against YPG/PKK-Daesh terror groups in Afrin, Syria.

FRANCE

PARIS – Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik to meet his French counterpart Nathalie Loiseau as well as Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and hold press conference.

AZERBAIJAN

BAKU – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement and hold bilateral talks.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Russian Embassy to hold press conference on recent developments in case of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal.

LONDON - "Hello, I am a Muslim" activity to be held by Islam Toplumu Milli Gorus (IGMG).

LONDON - Turkish composer Can Atilla's Symphony No: 2, Gallipoli, - The 57th Regiment, to be performed at Gallipoli Friendship Concert.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to hold talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

MOSCOW - Lavrov to meet Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary-General Thomas Greminger.

MOSCOW - Defense Ministry to host day two of 7th Moscow Conference on International Security.

JAPAN

TOKYO - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag to meet Health Minister Katsunobu Kato.