Diary

1- Turkish President Abdullah Gul will attend the opening of the 5th Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Summit in Istanbul. 

- Gul will also receive US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and his delegation in Istanbul. 

- Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz will attend the opening of the 5th Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Summit and will also meet with his Hungarian counterpart Pal Kovacks and high level BP officials in Istanbul. 

2- Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek will meet with the President of Belarus in Minsk. 

3- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will receive a delegation of the International Asian Political Parties in Ankara. 

- Erdogan will also meet with visiting Lebanese PM Najib Mikati. 

- Erdogan will pay a visit to Russia. 

4- Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan and Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan will attend the Turkey-Luxembourg Business Forum in Istanbul. 

5- Development Minister Cevdet Yilmaz will attend the closing session of the 29th Meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul. 

5- Recent developments in Syria and their regional ramifications will be covered. 

6- Recent developments and anti-coup protests in Egypt will be covered. 

7- The third round of nuclear talks between Iran and  P5+1 countries, which began on November 20, continues in Geneva.

(AA)