ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday March 15, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri, and later to attend award ceremony.
ANKARA - Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman to host al-Jabouri.
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to release labour force statistics for December 2017.
ANKARA - Finance Ministry to release government budget balance figures for February.
ANKARA - Following reactions, activities, and events marking 7th anniversary of Syrian revolution.
AZERBAIJAN
BAKU - Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend 6th Global Baku Forum.
BAKU - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend first Quadrilateral Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran. Cavusoglu to later hold bilateral meetings.
SYRIA
IDLIB/AZAZ/AFRIN - Monitoring Turkey's continuing Operation Olive Branch against terrorist groups YPG/PKK-Daesh in Afrin, northwestern Syria.
ITALY
ROME - Turkish National Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli to attend ministerial meeting of International Support Group for Lebanese Army and Internal Security.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Representatives of German Muslim groups to hold press conference on recent attacks against mosques nationwide.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW - Russia expected to respond to Britain’s expulsion of 23 diplomats over poisoning of former Russian spy and his daughter, raising Russian-UK tensions.
SPECIAL REPORT
Turkish motorcycle racer supports Syrian refugees
By Cansu Dikme and Meryem Goktas
ANKARA (AA) - Ace Turkish motorcycle racer says he regularly visits Syrian refugee families living in his hometown in the northwestern Sakarya province.