World Bulletin / News Desk

TURKEY 

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri, and later to attend award ceremony.

ANKARA - Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman to host al-Jabouri.

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to release labour force statistics for December 2017.

ANKARA - Finance Ministry to release government budget balance figures for February.

ANKARA - Following reactions, activities, and events marking 7th anniversary of Syrian revolution.

AZERBAIJAN

BAKU - Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend 6th Global Baku Forum.

BAKU - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend first Quadrilateral Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran. Cavusoglu to later hold bilateral meetings.

SYRIA

IDLIB/AZAZ/AFRIN - Monitoring Turkey's continuing Operation Olive Branch against terrorist groups YPG/PKK-Daesh in Afrin, northwestern Syria. 

ITALY

ROME - Turkish National Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli to attend ministerial meeting of International Support Group for Lebanese Army and Internal Security.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Representatives of German Muslim groups to hold press conference on recent attacks against mosques nationwide.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - Russia expected to respond to Britain’s expulsion of 23 diplomats over poisoning of former Russian spy and his daughter, raising Russian-UK tensions.