Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın davetlisi olarak Türkiye’ye gelen Katoliklerin ruhani lideri Papa Francesco’nun Ankara’daki ilk durağı Anıtkabir oldu. Papa, Türkiye’nin iki kıta arasında doğal bir köprü olduğu vurgusunda bulundu.

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Pope Francis visits Anıtkabir
Pope Francis, the religious leader of the world's Catholics visited the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk soon after his arriving of Turkey.
Accompanied by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Ankara’s Deputy Governor Mehmet Ali Ulutaş, Pope Francis laid a wreath to the mausoleum bypassing the Anıtkabir’s Lion Road since it took a long walking path.

After the stand of silence Catholics' leader went to Misak-ı Milli Tower where he wrote and signed the official Anıtkabir memorial book.