2,870 people evacuated from Egypt

Turkish Prime Ministry Emergency and Crisis Management Authority (AFAD) brought 2,870 people from Egypt to Turkey after the recent unrest in the north African country.
In a written statement issued Thursday, the chairman of the AFAD, Mehmet Ersoy, said that, as of 09.30 hours on Thursday, 2,870 people were brought to Turkey from Egypt in 17 passenger jets since January 29.
Among the people brought to Turkey were around 500 non-Turks some of which are Bosnians, Azerbaijanis, Kosovans, Macedonians, Malaysians, Americans, Indians and Spaniards.
On Thursday, we will send a passenger jet with a capacity of 281 people to Egypt in order to evacuate more people. That plane will return to Istanbul within Thursday. Moreover, the Turkish Airlines have two scheduled flights to Egypt on Thursday, Ersoy said.
More than 100 people have died in almost two weeks of unrest aimed at ending Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year-old rule.