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President Tayyip Erdoğan made a surprise appearance on all television channels late on March 25, probably in response to questions on why he hadn’t had any public appearances until that time. The president reiterated a summary of what Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, and Education Minister Ziya Selçuk said just a few hours ago. It all
When it comes to the coronavirus crisis, there are things that we know and things that we don’t. Some information is given, and some left in dark. As of the night of March 23, Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca’s statements about the course of the coronavirus epidemic in Turkey are as follows: -As of
Tokyo Olympic Games will be held between July 24 Aug. 9 as scheduled, despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Uğur Erdener, the vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) told YetkinReport, elaborating on the justifications of the Committee. In an exclusive interview, Erdener said that the IOC considered “no immediate need” to postpone the Tokyo
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to deliver his first speech on corona outbreak on March 18, a week after the first case was spotted in Turkey on March 11. A night before, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced the first Corona-related death in Turkey; an 89-year-old man, reportedly living in Istanbul. The number of cas-es,
Dr. Gökhan Hotamışlıgil was quite sad when we spoke on the phone about the coronavirus on March 16. Most of Harvard University’s biomedical research laboratories, where Nobel Prize-winning studies were conducted, were temporarily closed due to the coronavirus. Out of all the laboratories of the medical school at Harvard University, one of the top universities
Ali Babacan announced the establishment of the Democracy and Enterprise Party (DEVA) at the Bilkent Hotel conference room in Ankara on March 11. The initials of the party’s name also have a meaning in Turkish: a cure, a remedy). He made his entry into the Turkish political life 19 years ago in the very same
Now its officially in Turkey, too, after 114 countries in the World. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in early hours of March 11 that the first Turkish patient, a male, had been disinfected during a travel to Europe, not to China. Perhaps it will be too speculative to question a link between the year
President Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Brussels on March 9 for a series of top-level meetings. But the public influence of a video report by the Russian state broadcaster Rossiya, which claimed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “kept him waiting for two minutes,” was in the back of his mind. It was no coincidence that the
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on March 6 that Europe was “not going to be blackmailed by Turkey over this problem”, meaning the Syrian (and other) refugees piled up on the two countries’ common border. He was also saying that the 2016 agreement to curb “irregular migration” was “dead” because Turkey ceased to stop