Two Turkey-based charities are starting a campaign to help the crisis-hit Central African Republic. The Central African Humanitarian Aid Campaign was launched by the State of Disaster and Emergency Board (AFAD) and the Humanitarian Aid Platform in a meeting in Istanbul. Humanitarian Aid Platform coordinator Ali Kurt said that over 1 million people have been displaced and thousands of Muslims have been killed just because of their religion after international forces created an environment of merciless and systematic killing by armed gangs.
Kurt also slammed the international community for remaining silent over the massacres and compared the genocide of Muslims in front of the eyes of French and African Union peacekeepers to the massacres against Muslims in Bosnia in front of Dutch troops. Additionally, Kurt criticized UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who he said has not done anything besides a few statements while the situation threatens to become another Rwanda.