{"id":8222,"date":"2018-05-20T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2018-05-20T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:44:01","slug":"turkey-organizes-iftar-for-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-organizes-iftar-for-rohingya\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey organizes iftar for Rohingya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8223\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rohingya.jpg\" alt=\"Rohingya\" width=\"308\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rohingya.jpg 308w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rohingya-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/>A Turkish aid group organized an iftar (fast-breaking meal) program for Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh, where thousands have sought refuge.<br \/>\nIn a statement on Saturday, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) said it had sent food aid to 25,000 Rohingya and organized an iftar for 1,500 people.<br \/>\nMahmut Cevik, TIKA&#8217;s head of the Balkans and South Europe department, during the iftar program recalled the hardships the Rohingya are going through.<br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;Turkey was with you yesterday, will be with you today and tomorrow.&#8221;<br \/>\nAhmet Refik Cetinkaya, TIKA&#8217;s Bangladesh coordinator, extended Ramadan greetings to the Rohingya.<br \/>\nAhead of the iftar program, TIKA officials visited the shelters of Rohingya and listened their problems. They also distributed food aid to families and gave gifts to the children.<br \/>\nThe aid agency provides food to 6,000 Rohingya Muslims at the refugee camps every day and food aid to thousands.<br \/>\nSince Aug. 25, 2017, some 750,000 Rohingya, mostly children and women, have fled Myanmar after Myanmar forces began a crackdown on the minority Muslim community, according to Amnesty International.<br \/>\nAt least 9,000 Rohingya were killed in Myanmar&#8217;s Rakhine state from Aug. 25 to Sept. 24, 2017, according to Doctors Without Borders.<br \/>\nIn a report published last December, the global humanitarian group said the deaths of 71.7 percent or 6,700 Rohingya were caused by violence. They include 730 children below the age of 5.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkey-organizes-iftar-for-rohingya\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish aid group organized an iftar (fast-breaking meal) program for Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh, where thousands have sought refuge. In a statement on Saturday, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) said it had sent food aid to 25,000 Rohingya and organized an iftar for 1,500 people. Mahmut Cevik, TIKA&#8217;s head of the Balkans and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}