Wed 29 September 2021:
Afghanistan’s expectation from Turkey is to provide aid and support to the Afghan people, the newly formed Taliban-led interim government’s Second Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi said Tuesday.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA) about the latest developments in his country, Hanafi evaluated the Afghanistan-Turkey relations.
“Afghanistan and Turkey are two brotherly countries. In particular, the friendship relations of the two nations are so ancient that one cannot be separated from the other. During the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan, both the Turkish state and its nation stood by the Afghan people. It helped the people of Afghanistan. We want to be in close relations in the future as well,” he said.
Hanafi expressed the following regarding his expectations from Turkey: “Our expectation from the Turkish people is that the institutions and people who do humanitarian aid and charity work will help the Afghan people on various issues. We expect them to help the people of Afghanistan in education, health and all areas where people are needed.”
He also called on Turkey to be the first country to formally recognize the new administration in Afghanistan.
Hanafi also stated that the 20-year-long U.S. occupation has damaged every area of his country and that it is a moral responsibility of Western countries to compensate for this damage.
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