(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Jordan began evacuating its nationals from crisis-hit Yemen on Friday, the kingdom's Foreign Ministry has said.
As many as 48 Jordanian citizens were evacuated from Yemen on Friday to Saudi Arabia, the ministry said in a statement carried by Jordan's state-run Petra news agency.
The ministry, it added, would maintain its efforts to evacuate all Jordanians from Yemen.
Ministry spokesman Sabah al-Rafie told The Anadolu Agency earlier that the number of Jordanians in Yemen was estimated at between 500 and 1,000, including 350 university students.
Several Arab states € including Jordan € have joined a Saudi-led campaign against Yemen's Shiite Houthi movement.
Saudi Arabia says the campaign comes in response to appeals by Yemen's embattled president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, to "save the [Yemeni] people from the Houthi militias."
Yemen has remained in turmoil since last September, when the Houthis overran capital Sanaa, from which they have since sought to extend their influence to other parts of the fractious country.
Some Gulf States accuse Shiite Iran of supporting Yemen's Houthi insurgency.
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