Turkey’s deputy prime minister coming to Bangladesh to see Rohingyas

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdağ is coming to Bangladesh on a daylong visit to see the plight of Rohingya refugees who fled ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 26 Sept 2017, 06:59 PM
Updated : 27 Sept 2017, 04:49 PM

A senior official at the foreign ministry told bdnews24.com that he would arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday morning around 9am on a special aircraft.

He will then go to Cox’s Bazar where nearly 500,000 Rohingyas took shelter in a month of violence beginning on Aug 25.

He will meet Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali in the afternoon before leaving Dhaka.

Turkey's First Lady Emine Erdogan earlier visited Cox’s Bazar on Sept 7 and distributed relief materials among those stateless people.