It was the beginning of March. It looked as though all the world’s celebrities had contracted COVID-19. England’s Prince Charles, Iran’s Parliamentary President Ali Larijani, Hollywood’s Tom Hanks, and Turkey’s millionaire football coach Fatih Terim, aka Emperor, all had it. The list went on. People expressed their sadness. But in the meantime, statements like “this
Turkey implemented a partial lockdown to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. These limited measures, which kept majority of businesses open, which kept majority of businesses open, managed to avoid more adverse outcomes that could have been expected. Could Turkey have done better in those three months? Yes, we probably could have. If stricter measures were put
At the moment, all eyes are on the demonstrations in the USA and the course of the COVID epidemic. But Hong Kong has been hosting similar protests every weekend for months. Moreover, they are struggling against the Chinese administration, which has no regard for human rights. They are fighting against the Chinese police force, face
According to MetroPoll research company’s May 2020 study titled “Turkey’s Pulse,” the Turkish political scene has eventful days ahead. The company measures the popularity of politicians as well as the votes of the parties every month. According to the latest survey showing March 2020 results, President Tayyip Erdoğan had grown in popularity when COVID-19 first
January 2020 was a turning point in terms of Turkish-Italian relations. It would soon become clear that this wasn’t limited to diplomatic relations. We now learned that the two countries were conducting a joint intelligence operation amid the COVID-19 epidemic. Nevertheless, the most evident aspect, at the time, had to do with diplomacy. Because before
The majority of the restrictions applied for more than two months due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak got lifted on June 1. Parliament will remain open until the end of July, so for about two months. There’s a fundamental question here. Will the legislation proposals brought to Parliament during this time aim to recover the
The first, unrivaled item on the global agenda during the past six months has been the coronavirus. It still has not lost this first place. There’s nobody left in the world who doesn’t know the meaning of the word pandemic. Before finding a treatment for the disease, we had to learn how to deal with the
Let’s evaluate the last two months of our COVID-19 experience.Turkey started with immediate partial lockdown measures which were enhanced over the course of the pandemic. Schools were closed in mid-March and the businesses were encouraged to work remotely where possible. The elderly and the youth, who constitute about 40 percent of the population are under
On May 20, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump about the Covid-19 pandemic and also about Libya. Macron had concerns about “worsening foreign intervention” in Libya. He was asking the U.S. to dissuade Turkey from giving military support to the Libyan government. Because thanks to the Turkish military consultants and unmanned
We say “in Ankara” out of habit, to mean Turkish politics, but President Tayyip Erdoğan has been in Istanbul for more than two months. After chairing a meeting in Ankara about the measures against Covid-19 in Çankaya Palace, he moved to İstanbul. The Huber Mansion in Tarabya is considered safer against the disease. With the