A visit by Bilal Erdogan, son of the Turkish President and chairman of the board of trustees of the Turkish "Nashr al-Ilm" foundation, to Beirut, accompanied by Turkish Ambassador Murat Lutem and a delegation. He met Deputy Head of the Future Movement Bahia Hariri at Beit al-Wasat, then Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at the parliament headquarters. Both meetings addressed local and regional developments and ways to strengthen bilateral Turkish-Lebanese relations.
Lebanon Debate limited itself to reporting the arrival without details on the meeting's content, MTV Lebanon focused on the details and substance of the Beit al-Wasat meeting and the commemorative gift, while Anadolu Ajansı covered both the Hariri and Berri meetings, relied on a statement from Hariri, and framed the visit as part of a series of meetings with political figures.