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Turkey's TİKA Supports Rohingya in the Fight against COVID19

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</div>Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed 5,000 hygiene parcels to Rohingya refugees who combat COVID-19 in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Rohingya Muslims have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 25, 2017, when the most recent act of violence took place. TİKA, which has carried out various assistance activities and built many facilities to meet the needs of these refugees such as food, healthcare, and shelter, distributed 5,000 parcels containing hygiene products to Rohingya Muslims to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak.</div><div><br></div><div>TİKA’s field assistants and volunteers from Rakhine participated in the distribution that took place in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where 750,000 refugees live. The hygiene parcels contain hygiene products such as face masks, soap, antiseptic gel, laundry soap, laundry detergent, dish soap, toothpaste, and cleaning cloths.</div><div><br></div><div>From August 25 to September 15, 2017, TİKA delivered 150 tons of humanitarian assistance to authorities to be distributed to Rohingya Muslims by boats in the district of Maungdaw in Myanmar. It also directly distributed approximately 10 tons of humanitarian assistance to those in need by helicopters.</div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.tika.gov.tr/en/news/tika_supports_rohingya_muslims_in_the_fight_against_covid19-57325">Read More</a></u></b></div>

Turkey's TİKA Supports Rohingya in the Fight against COVID19

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed 5,000 hygiene parcels to Rohingya refugees who combat COVID-19 in...

Turkey's Lira to Save Syrian Economy

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The Syrian pound's staggering loss in value has renewed talk of replacing the currency with the Turkish lira in the northern areas under control of the opposition's Free Syrian Army (FSA).<br />
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The opposition’s Syrian interim government took a step in that direction Dec. 9 by holding a symposium on the subject. The symposium, held at the headquarters of International Sham University in Azaz, was attended by Abdel Hakeem al-Masri, the interim government's economy and finance minister, and by Maarouf al-Khalaf, the dean of economics and management.<br />
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This comes after the Syrian pound plunged on the black market against the dollar and other foreign currencies, leading to a major economic crisis and a significant increase in food prices in Syria. The black market exchange rate of the Syrian pound hit a low Dec. 1 of 950 pounds to the dollar. On Dec. 8, interim government President Abdurrahman Mustafa announced efforts to replace the pound.<br />
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Mustafa said his government will be injecting Turkish currency into northern Syria in denominations of 5, 10 and 20 liras to maintain citizens' purchasing power, protect their money and property and facilitate their daily transactions. (<b><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/12/syrian-turkish-pound-currency-inflation-fsa-aleppo-sig.html">more</a></b>)</div>