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
The question of media entertains us all, endlessly. With or without the boost of the Corona times, we go through a big time of transition. Corona seems to have stepped up the gear. Media, has developed new traits that we all need to understand. No need to ask why, simply we consume media 7/24.An experienced
The Presidential Decree No. 62, which was signed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on May 16 and published in the Official Gazette on Sunday, May 17, consisted of a single sentence. The decree stipulated that, those who are appointed to the Bank Council of the Central Bank could keep their teaching posts in the universities,
Before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Elections in the United States was more or less certain. Donald Trump appeared to have guaranteed a second term as President of the United States.Antagonism that Trump seemed to trigger across large sections of American society didn’t seem to affect the support
At first, I thought this was merely a social media attack of the Pelican Mansion group. This think-tank/media group was founded in parallel to Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) social media efforts from a Bosporus mansion called “Pelican”, mainly for public opinion manipulation. It turned out that the #NationalAccountsHere (#MilliHesaplarBurada) operation was the
Of all the pronouncements made over the past weeks, the Director-General of the World Health Organization has made one important point that we can’t afford to look past. He said that COVID-19 can only be defeated through a united global effort. Without a vaccine, the virus will remain amongst populations anywhere and the rest of