ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend 3rd Agriculture and Forestry Council meeting at presidential complex.
ANKARA - Newly appointed Ecuadorean, Zimbabwean and Burundian ambassadors to Turkey to present their credentials to Erdogan at presidential complex.
ANKARA - Monitoring developments in Turkey’s agreements with US, Russia on Syria.
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay to attend Turkey-Kyrgyzstan Business Forum.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - Fiona Hill, former top Russia expert at White House, to testify along with David Holmes, aide to top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor who testified last week.
POLAND
WARSAW - Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Faruk Kaymakci to hold political consultations with his Polish counterpart Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek.
AUSTRIA
VIENNA - International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors to hold meeting, with Iran and North Korea among agenda items. Acting chief Cornel Feruta to hold news conference.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to hold news conference.
ETHIOPIA
ADDIS ABABA - Expecting preliminary results of Sidama's statehood referendum.
BOLIVIA
LA PAZ - Following developments after resignation of President Evo Morales.
HONG KONG
HONG KONG - Following developments in ongoing protests.
IRAQ
BAGHDAD - Following Iraqi anti-government protests.
LEBANON
BEIRUT - Following weeks-long anti-government protests.
SYRIA
ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.
IRAN
TEHRAN - Following protests in different parts of Iran.
SPORTS
MILAN - Turkish basketball heavyweights Anadolu Efes to face Italy's AX Armani Exchange Milan in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Round 10.
SPECIAL REPORT
Ottoman style mosque allures visitors in Muzaffarabad
By Islamuddin Sajid
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-administered Kashmir (AA) – Surrounded by lush green mountains, the city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, looks like a mini-Turkish metropolis Istanbul.
SPECIAL REPORT
Kashmir episode puts India on horns of dilemma in Sri Lanka
By Iftikhar Gilani
ANKARA (AA) - India’s recent act of revoking constitutional provision that had granted special autonomous status to the Muslim-majority region of Jammu and Kashmir, is now haunting its position with regard to Hindu Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
SPECIAL REPORT
US reversal on settlements 'new crime': Palestine envoy
By Ali Abo Rezeg
ANKARA (AA) - The U.S. policy reversal on the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank amounts to a "new crime" against the Palestinian people, Palestine's ambassador to Turkey said.