ANKARA - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited on Thursday the Anitkabir, the Mausoleum of Ataturk.
De Hoop Scheffer laid a wreath at the mausoleum and observed a minute of silence.
NATO Secretary General also signed the special book of Anitkabir and visited Ataturk Museum.
De Hoop Scheffer will be received by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul and National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul.
(EÖ-AÖ) 19.02.2004