ANKARA
Here are the main topics that the English News Desk of the Anadolu Agency will cover on May 3, 2013:
1 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is visiting Turkey;
- Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek will meet Abe at Turkish-Japanese Foundation in Ankara.(10:45 a.m.)
- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Abe at the Prime Ministry with formal ceremony and later on bilateral and delegations' talks will take place. (1:30/4:30 p.m.)
- Erdogan and Abe will attend the 20th Turkish-Japanese Business Council at JW Marriott Hotel in Ankara and later on they will hold a press conference.(5:30 p.m.)
- Erdogan will host a dinner at the JW Marriott Hotel in the honor of Japanese PM Abe. (6:30 p.m.)
2 - Developments in in Syria and Iraq will be followed. (Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, Kirkuk)
3 - A tender for Istanbul's third airport will take place in Ankara. (10.00)
4 - Anadolu Agency's Finance Desk will host Orhan Okmen, the Chairman of the executive board of Japan Rating Agency (JCR) Eurasia, in Istanbul. (10.00)
5 - Turkish Statistical Institute, TurkStat will announce consumer price index and producer price index for April 2013 in Ankara. (10.00)
(AA)