Let’s put it this way: Which other minister in President Erdoğan’s cabinet in today’s Turkey could publicly announce his or her resignation only to be met with Erdoğan’s request to stay? Let’s broaden the question. Who, in the presidential team, could announce his or her resignation via Twitter? And who would Erdoğan publicly tell to
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu declared late on April 12 on his Twitter account that he resigned, right after announcing that a curfew launched on April 10 at midnight would be suspended as of 12 pm on April 12.His written statement contained words of self-criticism that went beyond the ruling AKP’s traditional discourse, taking responsibility for
Fu Ying, one of the most prominent figures of Chinese foreign policy, said that the coronavirus epidemic “taught a hard lesson” and “costed dearly” to China a, and that the Chinese people would expect “further reforms” from the Communist Party administration. After the spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party’s spokesperson as the National People’s Congress
Sometimes it is hard not to be surprised by history’s mind games or by the things it coincidentally brings upon us. Today’s major epidemic that will define the rest of the lives of today’s youth is being compared to the plagues of the past. Indeed, the ways to avoid such an epidemic have not changed
We all know that Covid-19 is a humanitarian problem, and containing the pandemic as soon as possible is an urgent obligation to save human lives.From an economic perspective, the total cost of containing the pandemic immediately is less than that of isolation policies that are put into delayed practice.The economics profession unanimously agrees that the
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that his ministry has gone into the “Emergency” management mode, which requires a 24/7 state of alarm, due to the COVID-19 outbreak as the toll in Turkey increased to a total of 649 on April 6. Answering to YetkinReport’s questions, the Minister said that the measures taken have started
The number of COVID-19-related causalities has reached to 574 and number of infected people to 27,069 as of April 5, according to the Turkish Health Ministry.Turkish main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu of the center-left Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been criticizing President Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government because of not taking necessary
Turkish opposition Good Party (GP) leader Meral Akşener has criticized the donation campaign launched by President Erdoğan over his donation campaign that gathered some 550 million liras, roughly $83 million dollars in three days against the Covid-19 outbreak, questioning whether the state could not possess such an amount of money to spend on its citizens.