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Chavusoglu: "If Azerbaijan were, it would do the same"

02 February 2020 14:51 (UTC +04:00)

"We couldn't leave our brothers there while evacuating our citizens," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu wrote on his Twitter today about the evacuation of Turkish, Azerbaijani and Georgian citizens from Wuhan, China, due to coronavirus, APA reports.

Cavusoglu said that even if Azerbaijan were, it would do the same.

Note that A military cargo plane arrived in Ankara carrying Turkish citizens who were evacuated from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of a deadly coronavirus outbreak.

The Turkish Armed Forces' A400M-type aircraft departed from Wuhan on Saturday airlifting 42 people, including 32 Turks and 10 people from Azerbaijan, Albania and Georgia.

The passengers' health conditions are reportedly good and their oxygen levels and body temperature normal, officials told an Anadolu Agency reporter on board.