Turkish aid agency sends aid to Rohingya muslims
December 18, 2014
The Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency has distributed food, clothing, and stationary to the people of Myanmar in Arakan state.
Along with AFAD (Turkish State Emergency Services), distributed food, clothing, stationary to the Rohingya muslims of Arakan state – 600,000 people have benefitted from the distribution that took place in the Yangon area, with two separate shipments of 600,000 tons to the capital Sittwe.
The Rohingya Muslims live 20km away from the capital city where they are in 10 different towns and districts. The organisation of the distribution was done jointly with TIKA and local ngo's.
In the press statement, it was explained that many were in camps and faced difficult condition with nearly 300,000 were close to starvation and the local organisations thanked TIKA and AFAD.
At the same time, the Myanmar United Nations Food programme had reduced their limit and as a result many Muslims in Rohingya are starving.
The Muslims who live near in the camps and villages expressed their gratitude for the people of Turkey for helping them in their difficult time.
