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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu attended a march organized by his party's youth branch to mark the Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day.
The party's deputy chairs and MPs accompanied Kılıçdaroğlu, who had a conversation with the youth at the Tandoğan entrance of Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the republic.
May 19 was a very important day for the country's war of independence, he said.
May 19, 1919, was the day when Mustafa Kemal Pasha arrived in the Black Sea city of Samsun from İstanbul to launch the war of independence that four years later transformed the country into modern Turkey.
Kılıçdaroğlu promised to prepare the republic for the second century by embracing all segments of the public.
Kılıçdaroğlu visited Anıtkabir and left flowers on Atatürk's mausoleum, and held a moment of silence. (HA/VK)
