Fidan highlights Rohingya plight during Bangladesh visit
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has highlighted the humanitarian conditions facing Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, saying Türkiye’s aid institutions will continue supporting displaced communities.
“Unfortunately, a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding here,” Fidan told Anadolu during a visit to the camps as part of his two-day official trip to Bangladesh.
“Türkiye’s helping hand has reached out here just as it has everywhere else, but of course, I wish these tragedies did not exist, and I wish we were not in a position where we had to provide aid,” he said.
More than 1 million Rohingya refugees live in Bangladesh, most of them in Cox’s Bazar near the Myanmar border, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
