Erdogan to raise killing of Rohingya in Myanmar in UN GA

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the death of hundreds of Rohingya in Myanmar over the past week constituted a genocide aimed at Muslim communities in the region.He said the issue would be discussed in detail when world leaders convene for the UN General Assembly on September 12 in New York. Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar’s northwest for a week, new official data showed, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in decades.“There is a genocide there. They remain silent towards this. All those looking away from this genocide carried out under the veil of democracy are also part of this massacre,Erdogan said in Istanbul.