Turkey Opens Door For 7,000 Greek Doctors

The Turkish health minister has come up with a novel way to help alleviate the shortage of medical professionals in his country, while concurrently easing the economic catastrophe in neighboring Greece: He wants to import 7,000 Greek doctors to Turkey. Today?s Zaman, an English-language Turkish newspaper, reported that Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said educated professionals are desperate to flee Greece, which has been hammered by unemployment rate that now exceeds 27 percent. ?[We] need them,? the minister stated at a hospital opening ceremony in Istanbul. ?Our doors are open to those 7,000 doctors from Greece. I invite those doctors to serve this country with their knowledge and experience.?

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