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Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said Ankara would have sheltered the Muslim Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants with merchant ships close to the Andaman Sea if Indonesia and Malaysia had not.

Çavu?o?lu made the remarks at a live televised interview in ?zmir province late May 29. "Turkey offered help with the issue and will continue its support," he said.

Myanmar's delegate to talks in Bangkok on Southeast Asia's migrant crisis on May 29 rebuked the UN's refugee agency for calling on the country to recognise the Muslim Rohingya minority as citizens to stem their exodus from its shores.

Malaysia's home minister has announced that mass graves have been found in the country's north near detention camps run by human traffickers, a report said May 24.

Indonesia has begun search and rescue operations for stranded migrant boats carrying Bangladeshis and ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar, an official said May 24, after it dropped a hardline policy of refusing them sanctuary.

Myanmar's navy has carried out its first rescue of a migrant boat, bringing 208 people to shore, an official told AFP May 22, as it faced mounting international pressure to tackle a regional migration crisis.

Turkey has pledged to add $1 million to efforts by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide humanitarian aid for Rohingya and Bengalese refugees stranded at sea, Anadolu Agency has reported, citing presidency sources. 

Malaysia's prime minister said May 21 he has ordered the navy and the coast guard to comb the sea to look for stranded migrants, the first country to announce it will search for the refugees in desperate need of help instead of waiting for them to wash up on Southeast Asia's shores.

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan has said Turkey, Indonesia and the Islamic Development Bank have accelerated their efforts to establish a "megabank" with the aim of creating a platform to serve as a "central bank" for the world's Islamic lenders, as reported by Reuters. 

Indonesia and Malaysia agreed May 20 to provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrants stranded at sea, the first breakthrough in the humanitarian crisis confronting Southeast Asia after weeks of reluctance by the region's nations to take responsibility.

Indonesia said on May 19 that the migrant boat crisis was a problem for all of Southeast Asia ahead of key regional talks, as Jakarta and other countries came under more pressure to let the boatpeople land.