Turkey requests land from Bangladesh for Rohingya camps

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Turkey requests land from Bangladesh for Rohingya camps

'If you can do that, we are ready to build proper camps for these vulnerable people,' says Turkish FM
Servet Günerigök |25.09.2019

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/74th-un-ge...nd-from-bangladesh-for-rohingya-camps/1593356

WASHINGTON

Turkey’s Foreign Minister on Tuesday asked Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to allocate land for building camps for Rohingya refugees.

Mevlut Cavusoglu was speaking at a meeting on Rohingya on the margins of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The minister said the Rohingya crisis is one of the gravest tragedies in the world and Turkey highly commends the role assumed by Bangladesh in tackling the huge number of Rohingya refugees.

"We request Bangladesh to allocate land as we did for Syrian refugees in Turkey, which are the best camps in the world," said Cavusoglu.

More than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017.

The Rohingya are described by the UN as the world's most persecuted people. The Muslim minority has faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.

"We believe that the international community also should do more to share the burden of Bangladesh in decreasing the problem of Rohingya refugee camps," said Cavusoglu.

The minister also said that since the outset of the crisis, Turkey has prioritized the issue in international agenda and helped the refugees with humanitarian aid both in Bangladesh and Myanmar.

He also said Turkey expects Myanmar to take necessary steps for the voluntary, safe and dignified return of the Rohingya.

*Kasim Ileri in New York contributed to this story

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[bluesky]

Actually, the most demanding question is when the Rohingya will get back their nationality and when the Burmese will be forced by the international community to take back their minority citizens to their homeland. BD is not their homeland. So, UN members should find out a way to re-establish the Rohingya in their home country.

BD has a small landmass and small resource. What Turkey did for the Syrians must be praised but Turkey is a big country with a large resource base. BD is different. The Rohingya solution lies with either they get back to their homeland or a part of Arakan is carved out to reinstate them.

 

[TNT]

IK should have attended this meeting too. You just cannot shout about kashmiri muslims and not care about any others at all. Makes u look selfish and careless.

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

A great gesture from Turkey. Thumbs up for that...

 

[Bilal9]

While I commend Turkey for the effort to build superfine camps, these Rohingya folks need to find a permanent place to live and not in camps. No refugee likes to live in camps, no matter how luxurious...

That means expediting repatriation of these folks back to their ancestral lands in Arakan under UN mandate and protection and forcing Myanmar to give them citizenship status in Myanmar, and forcing the Myanmarese to do this by economic pressure and sanctions.

This should be done in Asia itself by creating Pariah status for the Myanmar economy and whichever country does business with Myanmar (especially China and Singaporean companies) should face economic consequences like South Africa faced back in the day and Iran today. This is the need of the day- to make companies PAY for trying to do business in Myanmar until the Myanmarese change their persecution of the Rohingya and reverse the ethnic cleansing efforts.

That said however, the US and EU are moving fast toward sanctioning the Myanmarese Govt. The Myanmarese may paint themselves in a corner in the future by making themselves completely dependent on China at some point, and Chinese companies that do business in Myanmar may face bans from operating in the EU and the US.

 

[Imran Khan]

make them cities they will not go back next 100 years now

 

[Riyad]

Rohingyas will not go back to Myanmar.

Myanamr is finally relieved from Rohingyas. Such a successful plan to cleanse Myanmar from Rohingyas. Now they are headache of Bangladeshis.

We are left with these uncivil, medieval and criminal minded people. One day Bangladesh will have no option but to give national citizenship like Bangladesh is planning for stranded 'Pakistani' Bihari Muslims.

 

[Buddhistforlife]

Turkey requests land from Bangladesh for Rohingya camps

'If you can do that, we are ready to build proper camps for these vulnerable people,' says Turkish FM
Servet Günerigök |25.09.2019

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/74th-un-ge...nd-from-bangladesh-for-rohingya-camps/1593356

WASHINGTON

Turkey’s Foreign Minister on Tuesday asked Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to allocate land for building camps for Rohingya refugees.

Mevlut Cavusoglu was speaking at a meeting on Rohingya on the margins of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The minister said the Rohingya crisis is one of the gravest tragedies in the world and Turkey highly commends the role assumed by Bangladesh in tackling the huge number of Rohingya refugees.

"We request Bangladesh to allocate land as we did for Syrian refugees in Turkey, which are the best camps in the world," said Cavusoglu.

More than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017.

The Rohingya are described by the UN as the world's most persecuted people. The Muslim minority has faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.

"We believe that the international community also should do more to share the burden of Bangladesh in decreasing the problem of Rohingya refugee camps," said Cavusoglu.

The minister also said that since the outset of the crisis, Turkey has prioritized the issue in international agenda and helped the refugees with humanitarian aid both in Bangladesh and Myanmar.

He also said Turkey expects Myanmar to take necessary steps for the voluntary, safe and dignified return of the Rohingya.

*Kasim Ileri in New York contributed to this story

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Bangladesh only has one option to repatriate the rohingyas and that it is an all out war against Myanmar.

 

[24 Hours]

Still waiting on refugee resettlement programs for them, that would be much more helpful. Unfortunately, everyone is occupied with Syrians instead.

 

[hoursintel]

Might as well build that. There is no chance Myanmar will take them back now. They are under no pressure.