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Turkish PM to visit Rohingya camps tomorrow
DHAKA, Dec 19, 2017 (BSS) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will
visit Rohingya Refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar tomorrow to see the plight of
Rohingyas who fled from a military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state since
August 25.
The premier arrived in the city last night on a two-day official visit at
the invitation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
During his visit, Binali Yildirim paid homage to the martyrs of the
Liberation War of Bangladesh by placing a wreath at the National Martyrs’
Memorial at Savar this morning.
He also signed a visitor’s book there and planted a sapling at the
memorial premises.
The Turkish PM also visited Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi to
pay tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Later, he went round different sections of the museum and signed a
visitor’s book there.
On his way to Bangabandhu Memorial Museum from Savar, the Turkish premier
inaugurated a cancer unit at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital at
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital.
Later, he held a meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina this afternoon where Bangladesh, Turkey bilateral relations,
Rohingya issue and other regional and international issues were discussed
prominently.
According to schedule, the Turkish Prime Minister will call on President
Md. Abdul Hamid later this evening at Bangabhaban.
He will also join a banquet to be hosted in honour of him by Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina at Hotel Sonargaon at 8 pm.
Meanwhile, Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan, and Foreign Minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu visited Rohingya camps in Bangladesh in September and witnessed
themselves the plight of the Rohingya people.
Some 650,000 Rohingyas have crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh since
August 25, according to UN figures.
BSS/AIM/ARS/1609 hrs