Diary

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories): ​



TURKEY



ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend 11th Development Plan Publicity Meeting.



ANKARA - Erdogan to meet Burundi Parliament Speaker Pascal Nabenda at Presidential Complex.



ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend Foreign Economic Relations Board and 11th Development Plan Publicity meetings.



ANKARA - Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin to hold news conference at Presidential Complex.



ANKARA - Desk to monitor reactions and developments as Turkey's Operation Olive Branch against PYD/PKK and Daesh terror groups continues in Afrin, Syria.



ANKARA - TurkStat to release house sale statistics for January and population projections for 2018-2080.



ANKARA - Central Bank to issue report on Turkey's international investment position for the end of last year.



SERBIA



BELGRADE - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to begin two-day official visit.



FRANCE



PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron to host new Liberian President George Weah for talks.



UNITED KINGDOM



LONDON - Turkey's ruling AK Party Deputy Chairman Mehdi Eker to hold news conference and attend "The war in Syria: Is the territorial integrity of Syria unfeasible now?" panel organized by the Union of European Turkish Democrats at the House of Commons.​



LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May to respond to questions about the government's Brexit plans at weekly parliament session.



LONDON - May to meet Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in London.



PALESTINE



GAZA CITY - Rafah crossing to open for four days.



EGYPT



CAIRO - Military court to issue sentences against 89 civilian opponents.



SOUTH AFRICA



CAPETOWN - Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba to present budget speech to parliament amid fears of looming Cabinet reshuffle.



SUDAN



PORT SUDAN - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu to visit northeastern Suakin island of Sudan as part of two-day official visit to capital Khartoum.



KENYA



SPECIAL REPORT: Somali refugees in Kenya between rock and hard place



By Andrew Wasike and Magdalene Mukami



NAIROBI - Around half-a-million refugees stranded in Kenya face an impossible choice: either go home to al-Shabaab-hit Somalia under a controversial UNHCR "voluntary repatriation" program or stay and face massive debts accumulated due to food shortages at camps.



SAUDI ARABIA



JEDDAH - Turkey's Labor and Social Security Minister Julide Sarieroglu to attend Islamic Conference of Ministers of Labor of the OIC Member States.



MOROCCO



RABAT - Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya to attend 5th Islamic Conference for Ministers in Charge of Childhood hosted by OIC. -