ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend Teachers' Day program at Bestepe National Congress and Culture Center.
ANKARA - Erdogan to meet Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and National Intelligence Organization (MIT) chief Hakan Fidan separately.
ADANA - Energy Minister Berat Albayrak to attend the 7th Turkey Energy Summit.
ISTANBUL - Group A leaders Fenerbahce from Turkey to take on Ukraine's Zorya in Europe's second-tier international club level football competition, the UEFA Europa League.
UK
LONDON - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus to meet Leader of the House of Commons David Lidington.
FRANCE
STRASBOURG - European Parliament to vote on resolution calling for a freeze on EU’s accession talks with Turkey or make it subject to further conditions.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Lufthansa cancels more than 900 flights scheduled for Thursday as strike by pilots enters second day.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - A press stakeout with UN Special Adviser to the Special Envoy for Syria Jan Egeland following the meeting of the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force.
SOUTH AFRICA
SPECIAL REPORT:
Fears grow over South Africa's land tussles
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG - Conflict over farm land -- still mostly owned by minority whites -- could lead to civil unrest, experts tell Anadolu Agency.
LEBANON
BEIRUT - Palestinian security officials to meet Lebanese counterparts to discuss issue of Palestinian refugee camps in the country.
BAHRAIN
MANAMA - Foreign ministers from GCC member states to meet in preparation for next month’s scheduled summit of the gulf bloc.
MOROCCO
RABAT - Anadolu Agency talks to a leading member of the Justice and Development Party about the challenges facing the country’s next government.
MYANMAR
YANGON - State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi urges ethnic armed groups to join the peace process after a new round of clashes leave seven civilians dead near the country’s northern border with China.
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Thailand’s most financially-powerful temple to hold press conference after the Office of the Attorney-General decides to indict its influential abbot with illegally receiving money from scandal-ridden credit fund.
CHINA
BEIJING - At least 22 people killed, undetermined number remain trapped after platform of power plant tower collapses during construction in eastern Jiangxi province.