Arakan News Agency
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that a summit would be held at the initiative of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss a radical solution to the problem of the Muslim minority of the Rohingya in Myanmar on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19th.
“A number of leaders of countries interested in the crisis will participate in the summit,” Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a program to congratulate Eid al-Adha at the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in the southwestern city of Antalya. He will also be attended by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
The Turkish minister stressed that his country is working to end the injustice suffered by the Rohingya in Arakan province (Rakhine), west of Myanmar, and that President Erdogan discussed the situation there in telephone conversations with a number of world leaders.
The Turkish president also contacted former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who leads the UN mission to Arakan, without further details.
He added that the value of the aid sent by Turkey to Rohingya has so far amounted to more than 70 million dollars.
Earlier in the day, the army of Myanmar, in a press statement issued by the army commander, has killed at least 370 Rohingya Muslims in its ongoing operations in the province since August 25th.
The last two, the European Council of Rohingya (non-governmental rights group), announced the killing of between two thousand to three thousand Muslims, in attacks the army, in just 3 days.
Since October, Bangladesh has reached 87,000 minority people, according to official sources.
