Turkey sends 2nd consignment of medical supplies to US

ANKARA, Turkey — A 2d Turkish militia aircraft took off from an air corrupt come Ankara on Thursday carrying extra clinical aid to the US which has been hit laborious by thecoronaviruspandemic.

The cargo aircraft is carrying a 2d consignment of personal protective equipment, including masks, hazmat suits and disinfectants, the Defense Ministry supplied.

Turkey also dispatched a planeload of clinical offers on Tuesday that integrated 500,000 surgical masks, 4,000 overalls, 2,000 liters (528 gallons) of disinfectant, 1,500 goggles, 400 N-95 masks and 500 face shields.

The items dispatched Thursday had been despatched in bins showing the phrases of 13th-century Sufi Poet Jalaluddin Rumi in Turkish and English: “After hopelessness there’s so extraordinary hope and after darkness there’s extraordinary brighter solar.” The government did by hook or by crook present a breakdown of what was in the shipment.

Turkey’s deputy international minister, Selim Yavuz Kiran, and the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, David Satterfield, had been at the militia airbase to peek the aircraft off.

“We stand fully with our strategic partner,” Kiran later tweeted.

One at a time, a Turkish militia aircraft carrying clinical offers, including masks and disinfectants, also left for South Africa unhurried on Wednesday, the converse-flee Anadolu Agency reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman acknowledged meanwhile, that Turkey was sending clinical offers including masks, overalls and test kits to Palestinians in the West Financial institution and Gaza.

“Turkey will continue to stand by the Palestinian other folks,” the spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, wrote on Twitter. “Relief Relief humanity alive in enlighten that folk can live.”

Turkish officials say the country has donated clinical offers to a total of 55 countries — including Britain, Italy and Spain.

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