Turkey’s Fenerbahçe football club announced on
Wednesday that a footballer and a medical specialist on the team tested
positive for the coronavirus.
“Our player and medical staff...
Sixteen
international NGOs on Wednesday released a joint statement calling on the
Turkish government to refrain from discriminating against political prisoners
in its bill aimed at relieving...
Thirty-two Turkish citizens have so far died from the
novel coronavirus while out of the country, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
said on Wednesday.
“Unfortunately, our 32 citizens,...
Turkey has detained 410 people for making
“provocative” posts on social media about the coronavirus outbreak, its
interior minister said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
Interior Minister Süleyman...
Turkish prosecutors have charged 20 suspects including
two former top aides to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018
murder of Riyadh critic Jamal...
Around
2,000 people have been stranded for a week at Istanbul Airport by a shutdown of
flights to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reported,...
The death toll from COVID-19, caused by the novel
coronavirus, in Turkey has reached 44, while the number of confirmed cases have
increased to 1,872, Health...
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on
Monday that Turkey now has 1,529 confirmed cases of COVID-19, caused by the
novel coronavirus, and that the death...
Fatih Terim, Turkey’s most famous football coach, has
announced that he tested positive for COVID-19, caused by the novel
coronavirus.
The 66-year-old Galatasaray coach was tested a...
The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho
Sanchez Amor, has called on the Turkish government to release hundreds of
imprisoned journalists, lawyers, activists and human rights defenders...
İstanbul’s
historic Grand Bazaar has been closed as part of efforts to stop the spread of
the novel coronavirus, the T24 news website reported on Monday.
No
statement...
İstanbul
Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu said Turkey’s curfew on the elderly could be extended to
the rest of the population amid measures to combat the novel coronavirus,...
