ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Tuesday, July 14, 2015.
TURKEY
ANKARA – Justice and Development (AK) Party leader and Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu meets head of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahceli at 2 p.m. local time (1100GMT). The meeting takes place amid framework of first-round coalition discussions, more than a month after a general election failed to produce a governing majority.
SPECIAL REPORT
Economists: Will the Greek bailout work?
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) – Will the Greek bailout work? Will it turn the Greek economy around? Economists are not so sure.
Playing with words: Turkey's language watchdog
By Humeyra Atilgan Buyukovali
ISTANBUL (AA) – One of the key things which sets Turkey apart from its European and Middle Eastern neighbors is its language. In its efforts to protect 'correct' Turkish, the country's Language Association is learning to live with foreign loanwords.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – Foreign affairs committee at the European Parliament discusses Ukraine crisis and what it calls the “frozen conflict in Georgia and Moldova”.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Political debate on EU’s conditional bailout deal with Greece.
BERLIN – Reactions to ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and world powers in Vienna.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA – UNAIDS to present major new report on AIDS and Millennium Development Goal 6.
AMERICAS
U.S.
WASHINGTON – Features on possible agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
NEW YORK – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee releases first novel in 55 years; Go Set a Watchman. The book is a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
SPECIAL REPORT
Little sympathy for elephant conservation in Kenya's trampled villages
By Magdalene Mukami
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Elephants are a treasured asset for many African states, with governments investing millions of dollars to help protect them as they become endangered by alarming rates of hunting.
TV drama on Egypt 2011 uprising sparks controversy
By Marwa Gamal
CAIRO (AA) – A TV drama by veteran comedian Adel Emam which sheds light on Egypt's politics ahead of the 2011 uprising that unseated autocrat Hosni Mubarak is sparking controversy in the Arab country.
SOUTH ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT
Sri Lanka’s displaced Muslims reflect during Ramadan
By Dilrukshi Handunetti
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AA) – More than five years after a decades-long civil war ended, Muslims living in internal displacement camps say these have become their new community, which grows stronger during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – South Korea repatriates two rescued North Korean fishermen.
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Two journalists on trial in Thailand charged with slandering Thai navy, who they have accused of involvement in Rohingya smuggling.
INDONESIA
JAKARTA - Cities in the world's most populous Muslim nation start to empty as Muslims all over pack up their bags and travel home for Eid al-Fitr.
