Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Following developments in wake of Syrian regime attack martyring Turkish troops in Idlib, Syria and Turkey’s retaliation.

US

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump to hold rally in South Carolina.

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify to House Foreign Affairs Committee on Trump administration policies on Iran, Iraq.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to meet with his Luxembourg counterpart Jean Asselborn.

KENYA

NAIROBI - Kenyan police to receive certificates after one week of Turkish training on fighting crime and terrorism.

CHINA

WUHAN - Following global outbreak of coronavirus and efforts to fight it.

LIBYA / RUSSIA / TURKEY

TRIPOLI / MOSCOW / ANKARA - Monitoring diplomatic initiatives to resolve Libyan crisis.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to release Turkey's GDP figures for the last quarter of the last year and 2019.

ANKARA - TurkStat to announce foreign trade statistics and road motor vehicle data for January.

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to announce international reserves and foreign currency liquidity for January.

ANKARA - Treasury and Finance Ministry to release borrowing strategy for next three months.

SPORTS

VALENCIA - Istanbul basketball club Fenerbahce Beko to face Valencia Basket of Spain in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Round 26.

NYON - Draw for UEFA Europa League's Round of 16 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkey-Rwanda relations flourishing

By Hassan Isilow

KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) - The Turkish government is offering capacity-building to Rwandan police officers, and bilateral relations are at now their best, according to Turkey's ambassador to Rwanda.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish gymnast seeks national glory at Tokyo Olympics

By Emre Asikci

ANKARA (AA) - In 2020, Ahmet Onder’s life is driven by a single goal – to achieve glory for Turkey at this year’s Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkey’s ‘postmodern’ coup, 23 years on

By Isa Toprak, Omer Faruk Simsek and Ismet Karakas

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey’s 1997 military coup put “a great deal of pressure on all institutions,” according to a professor who lost his job in the coup, which left people from all walks of life – including students, academics, and military officers – deeply scarred.

SPECIAL REPORT

Foreign students in Iran unnerved by coronavirus outbreak

By Syed Zafar Mehdi

TEHRAN, Iran (AA) - As confusion prevails over the extent and severity of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, foreign students in the country face a puzzling scenario.

SPECIAL REPORT

Young Indian sounds alarm bells on dying earth

By Burak Bir

ANKARA (AA) - Traveling to more than 30 countries to sound the alarm on the climate crisis, an 8-year-old Indian activist has warned that the planet will die and people will soon have no future if necessary steps are not taken immediately.

SPECIAL REPORT

India: Boy out to buy bread hit by bullet

By Cheena Kapoor

NEW DELHI, India (AA) - For Amir Khan, the last three days have been nothing short of a living nightmare. The 16-year-old has not been able to sleep since Tuesday, when he had just stepped outside to buy bread and vegetables for home, in the Vijay Park area of northeast Delhi. In an interview, the teary-eyed young man told Anadolu Agency about the horrors of the last three days.