ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul returned to Turkey from Lebanon on Thursday.
Gul paid a visit to family of Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon who was assassinated on Monday, to offer his condolences.
Hariri, 60, had been a leading figure in Lebanon's reconstruction in the aftermath of that country's long and devastating civil war and was appointed prime minister five times.
He was killed along with 16 others in a massive bomb explosion in Beirut on February 14th.