ANKARA: Turkey on Wednesday sent boats to leave around 2,000 of its people from Lebanon, with its Beirut minister saying it would be” the biggest” removal of its kind from the war-torn state.
A Greek political cause told AFP two marine ships carrying the evacuated citizens and their families may arrive at the southern Turkish port of Mersin “in the first days” of Thursday night.
The two ships set sail immediately for the Syrian money whose southern suburbs were hit instantaneously by new Jewish bombardments.
” These ships, with a capacity of around 2,000 folks, will be ready to get those of our members who requested it from Lebanon to Mersin dock,” Turkish ambassador Ali Baris Ulusoy told TRT Haber public broadcast.
Turkey, which is estimated to include 14,000 people registered with its embassy in Lebanon, announced the walk on Tuesday because of the deteriorating security position on the ground in Lebanon.
Pictures on TRT Haber showed a crowd of people at Beirut interface waiting to board the ships.
The embassy said the two ships were also bringing “approximately 300 tonnes of humanitarian help” to present Turkey’s help for the Palestinian people, including tents, bedding, health kits and cutlery.
Since September 23, Israel has intensified strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon, killing more than 1,100 people and forcing more than a million to flee, the UN refugee agency ( UNHCR ) said on Monday.
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