Turkey celebrates the first and only Children’s Day..

The week-long festivities will continue on Saturday, April 24, with Turkish a Students Assembly meeting in Parliament’s General Assembly. On April 25, concerts a fireworks show will be held, open to the public, in the Parliament’s gardens.

The festivities and children’s shows will be held at May 19 Stadium in Ankara. It will be the 26th time these festivities have been held, since the UNESCO decision to call 1979 "World Children’s Year."

Dance and musical performances by children from many countries, including 20 from Iraq, 19 from Palestine, and many others from Afghanistan, Germany, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, China, France, Georgia, Croatia, Holland, Kazakhstan, the KKTC, Libya, Hungary, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldavia, Uzbekistan, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine and the host Turkey will be broadcast live on TRT-1, TRT-INT and TRT-TURK.

The celebrations held since 1979 have brought 14,701 children from 87 countries to Turkey.

On Thursday, student assembly representatives from all of the cities in Turkey visited Ataturk’s mausoleum with Education Minister Huseyin Celik and Parliament Deputy-Spokesman Nevzat Pakdil and laid a wreath.