ANKARA - Anadolu Agency (A.A) staff, led by Director General and Executive Board President Dr. Hilmi Bengi, visited Friday Ataturk`s Mausoleum and laid a wreath and observed a minute of silence on the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the establishment of the A.A.
Senior officials and former state dignitaries sent congratulatory messages to Bengi, including President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Speaker of Parliament Bulent Arinc, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, State Minister and Deputy Premier Abdullatif Sener, Health Minister Recep Akdag, Motherland Party Chairman Erkan Mumcu.
An exhibition of 70 archive photographs, which were taken by A.A photographers between 1970-1982, will open at the A.A art gallery Friday evening and a reception would follow.