Turkey ready to take on remaining 59 Uighur people in Thailand
The Nation, 4 August 2015
The Nation – Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu Tuesday told his Thai counterpart General Thanasak Patimaprakorn that his country was ready to take on the remaining 59 Uighur asylum seekers awaiting nationality identification, a source said.
Thanking Thailand for having sent 108 Uighurs to his country’s care, Cavusoglu also urged Thailand to follow up the condition of the 109 Uighurs that were sent back to China.
The two ministers were discussing the possibility of raising the level of cooperation between the two nations especially the settingup of a joint commission on economics and technical cooperation in the near future, as they attended the 48th Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.