Ambassador pays tribute to Chinggis Khaan’s statue in Ankara

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia's Ambassador to Turkey Mr B.Batkhishig along with the officials from the Embassy laid wreaths at the statue of Chinggis Khaan in Ankara city of Turkey on November 21, on the eve of the 852nd birth anniversary of the Great Chinggis Khaan--the National Pride Day. Mongolian students who study in the Turkish National Police Academy paraded in their uniforms. After paying a tribute to the statue, the anthems of Mongolia and the Republic Turkey were sounded. Mr B.Batkhishig and the deputy governor of the Chankaya district of Ankara Mr Gulsun Bor Guner made congratulatory remarks. Present at the ceremony were also officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, administrations of Ankara and its district Cankaya, and the Mongolians who live/study in the city. Around three meters tall, a bronze statue of Chinggis Khaan was erected in a park named after him in the Cankaya district of Ankara in 2006 on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Great Mongol Empire. The statue was created by a Turkish sculptor, this is the first ever statue of Chinggis to be erected abroad. A famous quote of Chinggis Khaan on how he approached affairs of state is inscribed in Turkish at the front of the statue and in the traditional Mongolian script at the back. It says, "Let my petty body lie exhausted, but not the nature of my state. Let my whole body lie exhausted, but not my state”.