Turkish military ship joins efforts to reach Rohingya Muslims

[Zarvan]

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The Turkish navy is carrying out efforts to reach Rohingya Muslims stranded in boats off the coast of Thailand and Malaysia, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said.

Addressing a group of young people at Çankaya Palace May 19, Davutoğlu said that Turkey was doing its best to reach Rohingya Muslims at sea with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with the help of a ship from the Turkish Armed Forces already sailing in the region.

Some 7,000 to 8,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are currently thought to be in the Malacca Straits, unable to disembark because of crackdowns on trafficking networks in Thailand and Malaysia, their primary destination.

Boats carrying about 500 members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed ashore in western Indonesia on May 10, with some people in need of medical attention, a migration official and a human rights advocate said.

The men, women and children arrived on two separate boats, holding 430 people and 70 people respectively, said Steve Hamilton, deputy chief of mission at the IOM in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.

Rohingya Muslims have suffered for decades from state-sanctioned discrimination in Myanmar.

Attacks on the religious minority by Buddhist mobs in the last three years have sparked one of the biggest exoduses of boat people since the Vietnam War, sending 100,000 people fleeing, according to Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project. The project has monitored the movements of Rohingya for more than a decade.

Tightly confined and with limited access to food and clean water, Lewa said she worries that the migrants’ health is steadily deteriorating. Dozens of deaths have been reported in the last few months.
May/19/2015

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[Kompromat]

God bless Turkey

 

[Oublious]

The Muslim countries ther should shame, wtf are you doing?

 

[ANMDT]

The Muslim countries ther should shame, wtf are you doing?

its not malaysia or indonesia to feel shame, the people in there 1stly human,so it is shame of UN to keep those people safely,to make sure indonesia and malaysia about they will be supplied in the case they house the refugees.

2ndly its shame of muslim world,they couldnt establish one UN-like help organization for refugees and humanitarian aid , and they didnt negotiate with countries in the region for housing the refugees .

Dont be mistaken with malaysia's wealthy ,developed looking,even their population low with a good GDPc ,they will struggle with poverty,while indonesia has such a massive population,and poverty is already at worst in there. Basically they have no enough strength to handle the situation,but they need a hand from world,or basically from muslim world to handle situation.

 

[TheGrim]

Just don't bring them back here. We already have more than enough of our share of refugees.

 

[Timur]

in Germany they only show it as if they flee from poverty like the africans flee to spain, italy etc..

they never showed how they have been slayed and killed.. I dont think UN will provide help..

its a shame that Muslim countries do not care or coordinate their help..

 

[xenon54 out]

its not malaysia or indonesia to feel shame, the people in there 1stly human,so it is shame of UN to keep those people safely,to make sure indonesia and malaysia about they will be supplied in the case they house the refugees.

2ndly its shame of muslim world,they couldnt establish one UN-like help organization for refugees and humanitarian aid , and they didnt negotiate with countries in the region for housing the refugees .

Dont be mistaken with malaysia's wealthy ,developed looking,even their population low with a good GDPc ,they will struggle with poverty,while indonesia has such a massive population,and poverty is already at worst in there. Basically they have no enough strength to handle the situation,but they need a hand from world,or basically from muslim world to handle situation.

Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand agreed to save the refugees starving in their boats.

Üç devlet anlaştı, aç ve susuz 8 bin mülteci kurtarılıyor (Foto Haber) | Ntv.com.tr

 

[T-123456]

Indonesia,Malyasia Thailand cant handle it alone.
The rich countries in the area must help.

 

[xenon54 out]

Indonesia,Malyasia Thailand cant handle it alone.
The rich countries in the area must help.

Like which one? Those three are already the richest in the region, only India is left but....

 

[ANMDT]

Like which one? Those three are already the richest in the region, only India is left but....

singapore, brunei they are the rich countries in that region

 

[xenon54 out]

singapore, brunei they are the rich countries in that region

Singapore has very strict immigration laws and Brunei is a sultanate, their Sultan is living in such a luxury that would put GCC sheikhs into shame, also booth are dwarf states, wont expect much from them.

 

[monitor]

Turkey also provided 10 million dollar for the refugee .

 

[ANMDT]

Singapore has very strict immigration laws and Brunei is a sultanate, their Sultan is living in such a luxury that would put GCC sheikhs into shame, also booth are dwarf states, wont expect much from them.

Bro i know how they are surely, but they could help with money to countries accepting refugees. No need to mention how brunei and singapore small that they are large as istanbul mostly

 

[T-123456]

Like which one? Those three are already the richest in the region, only India is left but....

Singapore,Brunei,Australia,New Zealand.