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Prothom Alo Daily reported that Sheikh Hasina boarded the helicopter at the Bangladesh Air Force base in Kurmitola at 14:25 local time. It is speculated that she may travel to a third country from there, potentially marking the end of her long tenure.

As the resignation unfolded, thousands of protesters stormed the Prime Minister’s residence in Dhaka, as reported by local television.

Turkey on May 24 evacuated four COVID-19 patients including an expatriate from Bangladesh, officials said. 

"Tuba Ahsan, a Turkish citizen, her Bangladeshi husband Mossaddique Ahsan, and their 3-year-old twins Huma and Ziyad were evacuated in an air ambulance," a statement by the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka read. 

Turkey's deputy prime minister on May 5 met ministers of seven countries on the sidelines of the 45th Session of Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The Turkish embassy of Bangladesh and the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) hosted the traditional ceremony of Sufi whirling dervishes on the night of Feb. 24 at the Dhaka Shilpakala Academy.

Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to repatriate hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingya within a two-year period, Dhaka said on Jan. 16, the first concrete timeline given for the refugees’ return despite many refusing to go back to their homeland.

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have decided to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 2017 in an attempt to boost bilateral trade ties.

Pressure mounted on Bangladesh April 26 after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious minorities for which only a handful of people have been convicted.

A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said on April 7, the latest in a series of killings of secular activists and bloggers in the country.

At least eight people have died after a ferry carrying some 200 passengers capsized in a river near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Thursday.

The MV Miraj-4 capsized during a storm in the Munshiganj district as it travelled towards Shariatpur. Officials say the death toll is expected to rise, the BBC reports.