Pope Leo XIV’s four-day Apostolic Journey through Turkey came to a solemn conclusion as he departed Istanbul for Beirut. His Holiness used his time in the country to send powerful messages of fraternity, Christian unity and inter-religious dialogue without giving way to ambiguity.
On his first full day in Ankara, the Holy Father was officially welcomed by Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, before he laid a wreath at the tomb of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the nation's founding father, at the Atatürk Mausoleum.
