Turkish first lady visits Bangladesh to see Rohingya plight

Staff Correspondent: Turkey's First Lady Emine Erdogan has arrived in Dhaka to meet Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam welcomed her at the airport on Thursday morning.

She is also expected to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the visit.

More than 125, 000 Rohingya refugees have crossed into Bangladesh as tens of thousands more were internally displaced by the latest violence on Aug 25, according to the UN agencies.

Earlier on August 31, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan phoned Bangladesh president Abdul Hamid expressing concern over the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.



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