Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, July 26, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend ruling Justice and Development Party’s extended meeting of provincial heads.

ANKARA - Erdogan also due to attend harvest festival of Turkey's General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises (TIGEM).

ANKARA - Central Bank of Turkey to release international reserves and foreign currency liquidity figures as of June.

ANKARA - Turkey’s statistical authority TurkStat to release household consumption expenditures figures for 2018.

SERBIA

BELGRADE - EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn to meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic to discuss key EU-related reforms and regional cooperation.

ALBANIA

TIRANA - Turkish Interior Minister to meet Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Interior Minister Sander Lleshaj.

SYRIA

ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

SPECIAL REPORT

Racist rhetoric could play against Trump’s campaign

By Francisco Seminario

WASHINGTON (AA) - If U.S. President Donald Trump has waded into his re-election campaign by playing the race card with the undeclared aim of capturing the white and more reactionary base of Republican voters, he has succeeded, judging by their initial response.

SPECIAL REPORT

PROFILE - Mahathir Mohamad, longest serving elected Muslim leader

By Riyaz ul Khaliq

ANKARA (AA) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s tightly packed four-day visit to Turkey is being keenly watched. Both countries represent freedom, democracy and rule of people’s will in the Muslim world.

SPECIAL REPORT

Anadolu Agency hosts prestigious war journalism program

By Jeyhun Aliyev

ANKARA (AA) - Anadolu Agency, Turkey’s leading news agency, provides war journalism training to international media workers with an aim to teach journalists to survive in crises and under extraordinary conditions.

SPECIAL REPORT

Pakistan hockey: From champions to qualifiers

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Hockey legend Samiullah Khan recalled a cold but shining morning in January 1982 when he together with other players of Pakistan’s national hockey squad landed at Karachi airport holding the glittering World Cup trophy after his team beat West Germany 3-1 in the final in Bombay (now Mumbai).