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Turkey to build Shelters for 100,000 Rohingya Muslims

Turkish Red Crescent has signed an agreement with Bangladesh to construct permanent accommodation for one hundred thousand Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from violence in Myanmar.

The Turkish Red Crescent will build a 100,000-capacity camp in Cox Bazaar for the Rohingya people in an area allocated to it by the Bangladeshi government.

Turkish Red Crescent President Kerem Kınık, who is in the region to witness first-hand the tragedy of the Rohingya people and find ways to alleviate their suffering, met with Bangladeshi officials.

The steel homes that will be built for some 24,000 families will include a kitchen and bathroom. The camp will also have a mosque, school and a medical center to serve the refugees.

“There are about 1 million Rohingya refugees in the Cox Bazaar region. Turkey was the first country to get permission from the Bangladeshi government to build a permanent camp. We promised to build a camp that can be used if the current crisis ends and the Rohingyas return to their homes.”

The Turkish Red Crescent camp will be within the larger Kutupaland Refugee Camp. Turkish engineers will soon studies on the land to build the camp, said Kınık. “NGOs will have designated places to build within our camp. There will be water wells, a school, medical center and mosque in the camp. There is nothing like it in Cox Bazaar. It will set an example to the world.”

He also said the distribution of food aid and medical supplies will meanwhile continue.

Bangladesh was already home to 400,000 Rohingya before the latest crisis erupted on the 25 th of the last month. Rights monitors and fleeing Rohingya say the Myanmar security forces and Rakhine Buddhist vigilantes responded to the Aug. 25 insurgent attacks with what they say is a campaign of violence and arson aimed at driving out the Muslim population.

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