Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will visit Cox's Bazar today to meet Rohingyas and see the situation on the ground, reports UNB. He will visit Kutupalang camp in Cox's Bazar and also check what kind of supports Rohingyas now need as the country wants to continue its support to Rohingyas. "Though he (Binali Yildirim) is here on an official bilateral visit, he will go to Cox's Bazar on Wednesday to meet Rohingyas and see their condition. He wants to get an idea what else the Turkish government can do," said Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque yesterday. The Turkish Prime Minister will leave here for home straight from Cox's Bazar

at 2pm on Wednesday. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will see him off at Cox’s Bazar airport. The Turkish Prime Minister highly appreciated Sheikh Hasina’s diplomacy over Rohingya issue and Bangladesh’s support to the displaced people.

He hoped the bilateral document signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar on November 23 will make Rohingyas’ return to their home possible soon. The Turkish Prime Minister urged the international community to enhance their support for Rohingyas in Bangladesh and finding a political solution to the crisis looking at it as a humanitarian crisis instead of seeing it as an issue of Bangladesh.

Some 655,000 Rohingyas have crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh since August 25.

On September 7, Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan visited Rohingya camp and said what is happening in Myanmar’s Rakhine State is “tantamount to genocide” and solution to Rohingya crisis lies in Myanmar only.

She also affirmed that the government of Turkey will stand beside the Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh in the face of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar’s Rakhine.