ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Thursday, March 5, 2015:
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK – Turkish PM Davutoglu meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
TURKEY
SPECIAL REPORT
Groundbreaking school project fuels Turkish innovation
By Tuncay Kayaoglu
ISTANBUL (AA) – Eighteen-year-old Istanbul college student Zuleyha Cakir likes music and going out. With her dark hair and eyes, a typical Turkish teenager she may seem. What makes her stand out from the pack, though, is that she is an entrepreneur.
IRAQ
ERBIL, Kurdistan Regional Government – Turkey’s Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz meets with the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Barzani.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA -- UN rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein addresses the UN Human Rights Council on human rights situation worldwide (Zeid Raad Al Hussein will also talk about Turkey's security bill, which is being discussed in Turkish Parliament).
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS- Leaders of European and national employers' and workers' organizations, will gather in Brussels to discuss concrete ways to strengthen social dialogue throughout the EU.
GERMANY
BERLIN—German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets with Poland’s FM in Berlin. The Ukraine crisis to be the focus.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL -- US ambassador stable after knife attack.
CHINA
BEIJING -- Premier Li Keqiang sets out lower growth and environmental controls as 2015 targets
MYANMAR
YANGON, Myanmar -- Ten-day parliamentary hearing on education law starts as police confront student marchers