Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Here are the main topics that the English News Desk of "Anadolu Agency" has to cover on November 10, 2009:
1- Turkey remembers great leader Ataturk.
- The founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, will be commemorated on the 71st anniversary of his demise all across Turkey, in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Turkish representations overseas.
- Turkish President Abdullah Gul and a group of statesmen will lay a wreath at Ataturk's mausoleum (Anitkabir) at 0905 hours in Ankara. Sirens will ring and Turkish flags will be brought to half mast at the same time.
2- "Democratic Move" will be debated in the Turkish Parliament's General Session.
- Interior Minister Besir Atalay will inform the General Assembly on "democratic move" and political party groups will talk about their views on the matter. (03.00 p.m.)
3- Speaker of Turkish Parliament Mehmet Ali Sahin will receive the chairperson of the Belarusian Friendship Group Gennady Novitsky in Ankara. (03.00 p.m.)
4- Chairman of the Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, Murat Mercan, will meet the chairperson of the Belarusian-Turkish Friendship Group Gennady Novitsky in Ankara. (04.00 p.m.)
5- Chairperson of the EU Commission in Slovenian Parliament, Darja Lavtizar Bebler, will hold separate meetings with chairperson of the Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, Murat Mercan, and chairman of the Turkish Parliamentary EU Commission, Yasar Yakis, in Ankara. (10.30 a.m./03.30 p.m.)
6- Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan will attend the Turkish-Egyptian Business Forum to be hosted by the Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey (TUSKON) in Istanbul. (10.00 a.m.)
7- Turkish State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz will travel to Sweden to participate in the Lisbon Strategy Conference.
