ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to meet opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu at the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's headquarters.
ANKARA - Yildirim will also separately meet Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar in the capital.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to separately meet representatives of several Jewish institutions and Muslim bodies, and Bloomberg Chief Executive Officer Michael Bloomberg.
NEW YORK - Erdogan to also attend a program organized by Turkish nongovernmental organizations.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing over ongoing military operations.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - European Parliament President Martin Schulz to meet Prime Minister Theresa May and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Schulz to hold a press conference on conclusions of the EU’s Bratislava summit and future of the bloc following Brexit.
SPAIN
SPECIAL REPORT: Muslim women in Spain battle headscarf discrimination
By Alyssa McMurtry
MADRID - During the same week as headscarves and Muslim fashion made a stunning debut on the catwalks of New York Fashion Week, women in Spain choosing to don headscarves saw a small victory of their own.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, and UN Special Adviser to the Special Envoy for Syria, Jan Egeland, to meet the press following the meeting of the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force.
NIGERIA
SPECIAL REPORT: Proposed mobile phone call tax irks Nigerian consumers
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS - Plans to impose a 9 percent tax on mobile phone calls, Internet data and text messages, seen by the government as a means to make revenue amid falling oil prices, have Nigerian consumers feeling cheated.
INDONESIA
JAKARTA – Death toll from flooding and landslides in Java island expected to rise above confirmed 23 as rescue teams search for at least 18 missing people
MYANMAR
YANGON – Religious Affairs Ministry official says government initiative to demolish illegal buildings applies to all structures constructed without permission or on state-owned land countrywide.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – Seoul takes aim at North Korean nuclear ambitions and dire human rights, calls for United Nations action.