World Bulletin / News Desk

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan departs for Pakistan where he is expected to attend 13th Economy Cooperation Organization Summit.

ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to receive Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic in Ankara. 

ANKARA - Justice and Development (AK) Party, Republican People's Party (CHP), Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to hold group meetings at Turkish parliament. 

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to reveal foreign trade statistics for January 2017. 

PAKISTAN 

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend council of ministers meeting at the 13th Economy Cooperation Organization Summit and deliver a speech. 

FRANCE

PARIS - High school students expected to block school entrances and stage rally against police brutality.​ (MERITS)

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - Geneva IV peace talks on Syria to resume with a meeting between Syrian opposition delegation and Russian officials.

GERMANY

BERLIN - German outgoing President Joachim Gauck meets representatives of international media in Berlin.

AMERICAS

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump to address joint session of Congress. 

NEW YORK - Muhammad Ali Jr. speaks  about being detained at customs despite having a valid U.S. passport and an easily verifiable public identity.

GAMBIA

BANJUL - The Turkish ambassador to Gambia, Ismail Sefa Yuceer, has said that his country is ready to help the small African nation strengthen its democratic institutions after the rocky political transition following the defeat of strongman Yahya Jammeh.