Turkey sending humanitarian aid to 'Turkmen brothers' in Iraq

Turkey's Deputy Foreign Minister Naci Koru has announced that Turkey has been sending humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Iraq.

According to the Foreign Minister's Twitter account, Turkey began on Monday to send humanitarian aid, food supplies and tents to Iraq, where hundreds of thousands of people are internally displaced.

Koru told a press conference that the “humanitarian needs of our Turkmen brothers are very important.”