President Erdoğan calls on Muslim countries' leaders to act on Rohingya Muslims

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged the leaders of Muslim countries to address the situation of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, making desperate attempts to flee the worst violence in Myanmar in at least five years.

Erdoğan talked on the phone with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Aug. 31, urging them to help find a solution to the violence against the Rohingya.

Wishing the leaders a happy Eid al-Adha, Erdoğan said ongoing strife in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Palestine threw a shadow on Eid celebrations. 

He stated that the violence towards Rohingya Muslims "saddens the Islamic world deeply" and vowed that his phone calls to find a solution to the crisis would continue. 

Earlier in the day, Erdoğan also urged people to pray for "all Muslims and all the oppressed, particularly the Rohingya people" in a message released to mark Eid al-Adha. 

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım also released a message on the issue.

"The ending of the suffering of Muslim countries that have to celebrate Eid under the shadow of wars is our biggest wish," Yıldırım said on Aug. 31.

The Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH), a Turkish aid agency, has dispatched humanitarian aid to Rohingya Muslims. The foundation distributed food packages to among 300 families, as well as tents for 200 families and kitchen materials for another 200 families, according to a statement by the foundation.

Bangladeshi border guards have recovered two dozen bodies from the country's shore in the last two days.

Around 27,400 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since Aug....