Erdoğan accuses Myanmar of ‘genocide’ against Rohingya

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” versus the Rohingya Muslim minority, who have fled in the tens of thousands wideness the verge into Bangladesh to escape ethnic violence.

“There is a genocide there,” Erdoğan said in a speech in Istanbul during the Islamic Eid al-Adha feast, which commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.

“Those who tropical their vision to this genocide perpetuated under the imbricate of democracy are its collaborators.”

Around 400 people – most of them Rohingya Muslims – have died in violence searing through Myanmar’s north-western Rakhine state, the unwashed chief’s office said on Friday.

Reports of massacres and the systematic torching of villages by security forces – as well as by militants – have remoter inferential tensions, raising fears that communal violence in Rakhine is spinning out of control.

To escape the violence, well-nigh 20,000 Rohingya have massed withal the Bangladeshi frontier, barred from inward the south Asian country, while scores of drastic people have drowned attempting to navigate the Naf, a verge river, in makeshift boats.

Erdoğan said he would bring up the issue at the next UN unstipulated turnout in New York later this month, subtracting that he had once talked to the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, as well as other Muslim leaders.

According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Bangladeshi authorities to “open your doors”, subtracting Turkey would imbricate the financing associated with letting in increasingly Rohingya.

Bangladesh once hosts 400,000 Rohingya and has said it does not want more.

“We have tabbed upon the Organization of Islamic Cooperation,” Cavusoglu said. “We will organise a summit this year [on the issue] … we have to find a definitive solution to this problem.”

The UN security steering met overdue sealed doors on Wednesday to discuss the violence but there was no formal statement.

On Friday Guterres said he was “deeply concerned” by the situation in Myanmar and tabbed for “restraint and wifely to stave a humanitarian catastrophe”.

The Rohingya are reviled in Myanmar, where the polity of roughly one million people are accused of stuff illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.