Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet Iraqi counterpart Barham Salih at Presidential Complex.

ANKARA - Salih to later meet Parliament Speaker Binali Yildirim at Sheraton Hotel.

ANKARA - Erdogan to accept credentials of ambassadors of Vietnam, Croatia and Equatorial Guinea.

KONYA/ANKARA - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit Mevlana Museum in Konya and attend working dinner organized by the Turkey Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) and Pakistan Embassy in Ankara.

ANKARA - Turkey's statistical authority (TurkStat) to announce inflation data for December, 2018.

US

WASHINGTON - New members of Congress to be sworn in.

SYRIA

ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war in wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out troops.

YEMEN

SANAA - Monitoring developments in humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Round of 16 of the 2018-19 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague regular season to tip off. Turkey's Anadolu Efes to face Germany's Bayern Munich while leader Fenerbahce will take on Spain's Baskonia.

SPECIAL REPORT

Overview of unconditional Turkey-Pakistan relations

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Pakistan were established in 1947, soon after Pakistan came into being as the then largest Muslim country on world map.

PROFILE

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan

By Islamuddin Sajid and Aamir Latif

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Imran Khan, a former cricket hero, assumed his office as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan in August 2018, after his center-right Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won the July general election in the country.