Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu paid his respects Tuesday at one of two war cemeteries in Myanmar where Ottoman soldiers captured by the British during World War I were buried.
Cavusoglu traveled to the central Magway Region to visit the Thayet War Cemetery after holding talks Monday with Myanmar’s leaders, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Htin Kyaw, during an official visit to political capital Nay Pyi Taw.
The ceremony at the cemetery, attended by a Turkish delegation and Thayet District’s administrator Aung Cho Oo, began with a minute of silence for the Ottoman prisoners of war, who were captured during WWI campaigns in the Middle East and forced into physical labor in Myanmar. (Courtesy of aa.com.tr)
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