As coronavirus pandemic pummels healthcare systems around the world, Turkey steps up to provide medical aid to several countries
Turkey on Friday sent medical supplies to Libya to help fight the novel coronavirus, which has infected 1.6 million people worldwide and claimed nearly 96,000 lives in 185 countries.
Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Ihsan Mustafa Yurdakul, Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Anwarul Haq, Chairman RDA Tariq Mehmood Murtaza and Secretary IHH-NL Ikhlaqur Rahman also attended the ceremony. Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin and Turkey's Ambassador to Belgrade Tanju Bilgic received the aid at Nikola Tesla Airport.
Bilgic, for his part, said that with this assistance, Turkey wanted to show that it stands by Serbia in these difficult times.The boxes of aid bore the words of 13th-century poet Mevlana Rumi: "there is hope after despair and many suns after darkness" plus the message "with love from Turkey to the people of Serbia.
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