ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday, March 8, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend program on International Women’s Day at Bestepe National Culture and Congress Center.
AYDIN - Main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to attend meeting with female heads of Turkish villages and neighborhoods.
HATAY - Three-day international convoy to raise awareness on plight of Syrian women arrives at southern Hatay province on final leg of journey. News conference expected.
SPECIAL REPORT: Assad regime ex-prisoner pleads for jailed Syrian women
By Meryem Goktas
HATAY, Turkey - Thousands of Syrian women continue to languish at prisons in Assad regime-controlled areas of Syria, suffering unimaginable horrors as the world marks International Women's Day, a female survivor of jail torture has told Anadolu Agency.
SYRIA
IDLIB/AZAZ/AFRIN - Monitoring Turkey's continuing Operation Olive Branch against terrorist groups YPG/PKK-Daesh in Afrin, northwestern Syria.
AUSTRIA
VIENNA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet Austrian counterpart Karin Kneissl.
HUNGARY
BUDAPEST - Turkish national defense minister to meet Hungarian counterpart Istvan Simicsko and Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmus to hold news conference at ITB Berlin tourism fair.
UK
LONDON - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to continue official visit.
LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May to host International Women's Day reception.
LONDON - British authorities to continue probe into suspected poisoning of ex-Russian spy.
ETHIOPIA
ADDIS ABABA - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expected to meet Ethiopian and African Union officials during which he would unveil American strategy for Africa.