07/07/2010 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered his condolences to Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah over the death of Muslim Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlullah. In a statement for Hezbollah Media relations reported Wednesday that Sayyed Nasrallah thanked Erdogan and the Turkish nation.
According to the report, Sayyed Nasrallah spoke with the Turkish leader via telephone following the ayatollah's death which was publicized to Muslims throughout the world. Erdogan expressed his sorrow to the family of Fadlullah and the Lebanese people. Sayyed Nasrallah thanked him for the call and for his stance in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying "your positions have given hope to the Arab and Muslim world."
Sayyed Fadlullah's funeral was held Tuesday after hundreds of thousands of Lebanese and many others who came from different Arab and Islamic World accompanied him on his last journey throughout Beirut’s Southern Suburb.
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