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Turkish prime minister’s wife in tears after
meeting Muslims in Myanmar
Tuesday August 14, 2012 12:56:12 PM,
Agencies
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Dubai:
A video released on a social media platform shows Emine Erdogan, the wife of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, burst into tears when she met members of the
Muslim minority in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, Al Arabiya
reported on Monday.
Emine Erdogan accompanied Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu as he left on Wednesday to observe the situation in
Rakhine where fighting between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslim has
killed 80 people in June, according to official figures.
Mrs. Erdogan’s attempts to stop her tears with a tissue were
futile, when a man speaking in the local Roghinya language made
his anguish clear to Davutoglu not only through a translator but
also through his loud cries, which compelled the foreign minister
to hug him, and made her cry even more.
Before his departure to Myanmar, Davutoglu said that the
government of Myanmar reported the deaths to be around a
hundred... but the Muslim leaders in Rakhine, with whom Ankara had
been in contact, said the toll reached thousands.
The foreign minister and the prime minister’s wife offered hugs
and around $2 million worth of humanitarian supplies. Myanmar
generally allows only humanitarian aid through U.N. organizations
but recently accepted the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to
assist the Rohingya displaced by sectarian violence.
Human Rights Watch said on Aug. 1 that the Rohingyas had suffered
mass arrests, killings and rapes at the hands of the Myanmar
security forces. The minority bore the brunt of a crackdown after
days of arson and machete attacks in June by both Buddhists and
Rohingyas in Rakhine state, the monitoring group said.
Myanmar, where at least 800,000 Rohingyas are not recognized as
one of the country’s many ethnic and religious groups, has said it
exercised “maximum restraint” in quelling the riots.
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