Raúl Castro

A delegation from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will travel to Cuba to attend the funeral of Cuba's iconic late leader Fidel Castro on Dec. 4. 

The will be headed by CHP Deputy Chair Veli Ağbaba, Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu and Kocaeli deputy Tahsin Tarhan, the party announced on Nov. 29. 

Cuba mourned revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and defied U.S. efforts to topple him for five decades, as the island prepared to say its last goodbyes to the towering giant of modern history with mass memorials and a four-day funeral procession.

BELGRADE - Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has died aged 90, local media reported.

His body will be cremated under his own will, the Prensa Latina news agency reported, citing incumbent Cuban President Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's brother.

Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president and leader of the communist revolution died at the age 90. “The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 hours this evening (03:29 GMT Saturday),” President of Cuba and brother of Fidel, Raul Castro said. Fidel Castro had ruled Cuba in a one part system for 50 years until 2008, when his brother Raul took over.

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90.

Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, Cuban state media reports.

He ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost 50 years before Raul Castro took over in 2008.

His supporters said he had given Cuba back to the people. But he was also accused for repressing opposition.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro (89) has addressed the 7th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba.

The gathering reelected his brother Raul to a new five-year mandate at the head of the party, according to Cuban media.

Future top leaders of Cuba's Communist party should retire at 70 to let in younger blood, President Raul Castro said on April 16, suggesting older members of the party hoping for promotion to the top table could play with their grandchildren instead. 

US President Barack Obama told Cubans on March 22 he wants to "bury" decades of Cold War conflict and then joined his counterpart Raul Castro for some baseball diplomacy to wrap up his historic visit to the communist island.

U.S. President Barack Obama pushed Cuba to improve human rights during his historic visit to the Communist-led island on March 21, publicly sparring with President Raul Castro who showed flashes of anger and hit back at U.S. "double standards," while also setting aside differences in pursuit of a "new day," as Obama called it.