ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/ breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to chair meetings of ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's Central Decision and Executive Board.
ANKARA - Monitoring developments on coronavirus pandemic in Turkey, worldwide.
ANTALYA - Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Ukrain's Culture and Information Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko to attend sub-working group meeting on Ukraine tourist rights, tourism security.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - UN-led unofficial Cyprus conference to kick off in Geneva with attendance of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, foreign ministers of guarantor countries Turkey, Greece, UK.
US
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to deliver remarks on COVID-19 response.
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet virtually with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama. Blinken also to meet with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - Members of European Parliament to vote on ratification of UK-EU Trade Agreement.
GERMANY
BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to virtually meet Slovak counterpart Ivan Korcok to discuss bilateral ties, EU and international issues.
MYANMAR
YANGON - Monitoring developments in Myanmar after Feb. 1 military coup triggered violent protests.
SPECIAL REPORT
Iran: Leaked audio of foreign minister stirs political storm
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) - Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif arrived in Iraq on Monday morning on the second leg of his two-nation regional tour, even as a flood of political controversy surged at home.
ANALYSIS
Is Israel sabotaging a return to the JCPOA?
By Batu Coskun
ISTANBUL (AA) - Iran’s nuclear facilities in Natanz took a devastating hit in the form of a power cut on the eve of informal talks between the US and Iran on a possible return to some rendition of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
ANALYSIS
How to interpret Biden's statements on 1915 incidents?
By Yildiz Deveci Bozkus
ISTANBUL (AA) - A new era has begun in Turkey-US relations since President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20. It is known that the two sides have their differences on many issues, such as the exclusion of Turkey from the F-35 project between the two countries, the US' Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) sanctions, the S-400 issue, joint military exercises by the US and Greece, the events in Karabakh, the defense agreement between Israel and Greece, authorization in the US of arms sales to the Greek Cypriot administration, UD support to terrorist organizations in Syria, the issue of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) and developments in northern Iraq and Libya.