Arakan News Agency
Turkey is considering a proposal for Bangladesh government to establish a camp for 200,000 Arakan Muslims on its territory, Bangladesh’s Minister of Relief and Disaster Management said in a statement.
According to local media in Bangladesh, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury met Turkish ambassador to Bangladesh Dorem Ozturk at his office on Tuesday.
The meeting dealt with the assistance that Turkey is preparing to provide Bangladesh for the Arakan refugees.
He added that they had proposed to Turkey the establishment of a camp of 200,000 people, and that Ankara was studying it.
He stressed that if the Turkish government set up a camp on the territory of Bangladesh, they will be called the area where the camp will be named “Turkish region.”
He said that the Turkish ambassador will transfer the proposal to the Turkish government, expressing the hope that his country will receive such support from Turkey.
He pointed out that Turkey provides food aid to thousands of Muslim Arakan refugees in his country, and that Ankara has pledged them to provide shelter, food, medical treatment, clean water and all other needs needed by the Rohingya Muslims.
He noted that the refugee camps in Bangladesh need 30 thousand toilets, and they have proposed to Turkey to build 20 thousand of them, and are waiting for a response in this regard also.
Since August 25th, the Myanmar army and Buddhist militias have committed crimes, attacks and brutal massacres against the Muslim minority of Rohingya in Arakan province, killing thousands of them, according to local and international sources.
More than 600,000 Rohingyas have been taken to Bangladesh, according to the latest statistics issued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The government of Myanmar considers Rohingya Muslims “illegal immigrants” from Bangladesh, while the United Nations classifies them as “the most persecuted religious minority in the world.”
