Turkey expanded
measures against the coronavirus on Saturday, suspending flights to 46 more
countries and banning picnics and barbecues, as the number of cases has roughly
doubled...
In his daily Twitter briefing on Friday Turkey’s
health minister, Fahrettin Koca, said the number of confirmed coronavirus cases
had increased to 670, while five more...
Başak Demirtaş, the wife of Selahattin Demirtaş, a
jailed Kurdish politician, on Friday urged the Turkish government to
immediately release prisoners due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Posting...
Turkey has detained 64 people for sharing “unfounded
and provocative” posts on social media about the deadly coronavirus outbreak
since March 11, according to the Interior...
Turkey’s ruling party is preparing a bill to release
“as many prisoners as possible” from jails amid the coronavirus outbreak,
according to a party official.
However, rights...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree on
Friday postponing all events related to science, culture and art as Turkey
seeks to contain a surge in...
Turkey on Friday started testing all suspected cases
of coronavirus in more cities with additional labs, and the number of positive
cases is likely to increase...
The number of coronavirus cases in Turkey has reached
359, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted late on Thursday, adding that
another citizen had died, bringing the...
The crippling economic impact of the coronavirus is
set to push the world’s poorer countries including Turkey into recession by the
middle of the year, US...
As
Turkish authorities confirm rapidly increasing cases of the novel coronavirus,
32 bar associations across the country released a joint statement on Wednesday
calling for a number...
An
İstanbul hospital has belatedly confirmed that retired Gen. Aytaç Yalman,
former commander of the Turkish Land Forces who died at the age of 80 on
Tuesday,...
