Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend opening ceremony of technology development center at Middle East Technical University (METU).

ANKARA - Erdogan also to receive Turkish opposition MHP leader Devlet Bahceli at presidential complex.

ISTANBUL - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to visit Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) and Halki (Heybeliada) Seminary, former Christian Orthodox school, with Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew.

ISTANBUL - Tsipras also to meet at Greece Consulate with representatives of Greeks living in Istanbul.

ANKARA - Statistical authority TurkStat to release household domestic tourism figures for third quarter of 2018.

ANKARA - State airports authority to release airport statistics for January.

US

WASHINGTON - US to host meeting of foreign ministers from anti-Daesh coalition countries.

WASHINGTON - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to take part in meeting of foreign ministers of anti-Daesh coalition.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump to address anti-Daesh coalition's ministerial meeting.

UK

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May to take questions from lawmakers in House of Commons and meet Arlene Foster, leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - NATO to sign Accession Protocol with Macedonia

GERMANY

BERLIN - President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Angela Merkel to attend ceremony marking 100th anniversary of Weimar Constitution.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin to attend meeting of Delovaya Rossiya forum.

MOSCOW - Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to hold news conference.

MOSCOW - Second day of informal inter-Afghan talks.

TURKMENISTAN

ASHGABAT - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to have talks with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov.

PHILIPPINES

MINDANAO - 2nd round of Philippine Muslim autonomy poll -- with areas voting on whether to join new autonomous region -- to take place.

VENEZUELA

CARACAS - Monitoring national and international developments amid calls for President Nicolas Maduro to hold new elections.

SYRIA

ALEPPO / IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war in wake of US decision to withdraw troops.

YEMEN

SANAA - Monitoring developments in humanitarian crisis and civil war.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Galatasaray to face Hatayspor at home in first leg of Turkish Cup quarterfinal match.

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