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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
An outbreak caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19, started in China earlier this year. To date, more than 130.000 cases have been diagnosed worldwide. A total of 123 countries officially reported infections. This outbreak, which first started as an epidemic, was turned into a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. What
In Turkey we like the “three monkeys” play. Especially our governments over the years have hidden so many truths from us… And we should take accountability as well, since we are also party to this deception. The coronavirus pandemic has been no exception. It may be plausible for some that the Turkish state is “protecting”
What happens if your fever, your body temperature, increases by 3 degrees? You have to run to the emergency room, right? But what if earth’s fever increases 3 degrees? I try to explain. Oceans become warmer as the land heats up. On the one hand, the melting of glaciers at the poles accelerates In Antarctica,
Zülfü Livaneli has been one of the leading symbols in Turkey in the quest for rights and justice. An artist who feels equally comfortable with the traditional Anatolian saz, the pen or the microphone, he is an international name followed by millions as a musician, writer, and political activist…Many generations grew up with his songs,
Have you ever heard of the word “netiquette”? If you haven’t, hear me out. Learn it. Because, especially these days, we need to learn it and play by its rules… “Netiquette” is the “net” version of etiquette — it’s good manners for the internet. Yes, there’s an etiquette to the virtual world too. As our