Gul celebrates the World Art Day

President Abdullah Gul celebrated World Art Day and said the day was an opportunity to thank the artists for the treasure of the arts. April 15 is celebrated as World Art Day worldwide, as the date is the birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci. Gul said in his message that he hoped the day would mark a will to establish peaceful relations between different cultural groups worldwide under the uniting force of art.  "Anything that affects societies has worked to transform art, because it is the result of the working hands and working minds. This mutually transformative force between arts and societies has worked in the long term as a transformative force that made the two poles unite as one," Gul said, adding that Turkey had made a fine contribution of artistic production in universal philosophy and arts in the past and present, and that art had always had an important place in Turkish social and daily life without losing its force throughout the centuries.