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Turkey: PM Set to Visit Somalia


Thursday, August 11, 2011

Başbakan, ailesiyle birlikte Somali'ye gidiyor
PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday announced plans to visit drought-hit Somalia with his family, slamming developed countries for benefitting from Africa’s natural resources while remaining indifferent to the continent’s struggles. “Every day hundreds of our African brothers are dying. Where is the world, the developed countries? Do they extend their hands?” Erdoğan asked his party fellows at a meeting in Ankara.

Accusing some countries that have “plundered for centuries and made these regions bloody hostages of dictatorial regimes for their own interests” of just watching the famine disaster from the sidelines, Erdoğan asked when the international community would help Africa if they did not do it now.

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 “If they don’t take upon the burden of conscience in the world, then which civilization, which universal values can they talk about?” he asked. Emphasizing that Turkey is carrying out an ongoing campaign to aid the hungry in Somalia, Erdoğan said he and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, along with their families, would soon pay a visit to the stricken country.

Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate has collected 31 million Turkish Liras to help Africans suffering from hunger, Director Mehmet Görmez told the Anatolia news agency Wednesday. Noting that all members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, would convene in Istanbul on Aug. 17, Gormez said they would ask for the cooperation of Islamic countries to help Africa.

Source: Turkish Weekly

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