Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets Rohingya Muslim

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (C) meets Rohingya Muslim elders at Aung Mingalar in Sittwe, a Muslim quarter where residents are mostly Rohingya, located in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Cavusoglu’s visit coincided during Islam’s holy fasting month of Ramadan as thousands of persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya languish in several other displacement camps following bloody sectarian violence in 2012 between the Rohingya and Buddhist population in Rakhine State. Cavusoglu earlier met with Myanmar President Htin Kyaw and State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi in capital city Naypyidaw.

Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won a landslide victory in November elections, ushering in the country’s first civilian government after 54 years of direct and indirect military rule. Both the police and the judiciary are overseen by Myanmar’s Home Ministry, which remains under control of the military. (Courtesy of siasat.com)