Diary

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Turkey's Vice President Fuat Oktay to attend Turkey-Uzbekistan Business Forum, meet Uzbekistan's Deputy Prime Minister Elyor Ganiyev, and later chair meeting of Turkey-Uzbekistan Mixed Economic Commission

ANKARA - Turkey's statistical authority TurkStat to release consumer confidence index for July

ANKARA - TurkStat to release international migration statistics for 2018

U.S.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump to meet with Republican senators on Turkey's S-400 purchase

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan

WASHINGTON - United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to hold discussion with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan

UK

LONDON - New leader of leading Conservative Party and UK's new prime minister will be announced

SPAIN

MADRID - Following first vote of confidence for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez

SYRIA

ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war

PALESTINE

JERUSALEM- Monitoring situation after Israeli move to tear down dozens of homes in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM - Following developments in case of Anadolu Agency photographer Mustafa Kharouf after Jordan denied him entry upon deportation by Israel

ALGERIA

ALGIERS - Student demonstrations to be staged calling for departure of Bouteflika-era officials

LEBANON

BEIRUT- Minister of Labor Camille Abousleiman to meet with Palestinian trade unions to discuss controversial labor law

LIBYA

TRIPOLI - Tripoli-based Government of National Accord forces increase reinforcements amid reports on Haftar's imminent offensive

SUDAN

KHARTOUM- Following the ongoing talks between opposition bloc and armed groups

INDONESIA

JAKARTA - Turkey's Family, Labor and Social Services Minister Zehra Zumrut Selcuk to attend National Children's Day activities

JAKARTA – Selcuk also to attend signing ceremony of memorandum of understanding between Turkey and Indonesia on empowering women and protecting children

NAMIBIA

WINDHOEK – Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca to attend first meeting of Turkey-Namibia Mixed Trade and Economic Committee

SPECIAL REPORT

Ethiopia: Push for new ethnic state may expose constitutional deficiencies



By Addis Getachew



On the verge of becoming the tenth state in federal Ethiopia, 10 ethnic groups in the Southern Ethiopian Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Regional State (SNNPRS) continue on their controversial push. -