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,
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.
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.
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.
movements of Rohingya
for more than a decade.
According to the official data, population of Myanmar is 55 million
and 90 percent of it is formed by Buddhists and 10 percent of it is
formed by Muslims.
Number of Rohingya Muslims differs from 800 thousand to 2 million in
the Arakan region in the West of Myanmar, close to the Bangladesh
border.
Source: Daily News
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