"Turkey celebrates May 19 Commemoration of Ataturk and Youth&Sports day
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May 19th Commemoration of Ataturk, Youth and Sports Day is being celebrated on Friday throughout Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
The first ceremony in Ankara took place in Anitkabir, the Mausoleum of Ataturk, the Founder of Turkish Republic.
Pillars of state headed by Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer visited the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok, Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal, Constitutional Court President Tulay Tugcu, State Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Abdullatif Sener, Foreign Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, Council of
Ministers members, force commanders, Supreme Court Chief Judge Osman Aslan, Council of State Chairwoman Sumru Cortoglu, Chairman of the Government Accounting Bureau Mehmet Damar, Supreme Court Chief
Prosecutor Nuri Ok, Motherland Party (ANAVATAN) leader Erkan Mumcu, some other parliamentarians and executives attended the ceremony. They laid a wreath to the tomb of Ataturk, and observed a minute of silence in the memory of Ataturk. "
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