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Turkey ends a 19-day lockdown early on May 17, which was announced to reduce daily new cases of Covid-19 to around 5,000 ahead of the upcoming tourism season, a failed attempt so far. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on May 14 that the normalization process will begin after May 17. However, the Heath Ministry announced
Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry has pulled back a video showing tourism employees wearing masks with a motto reading “Enjoy. I’m vaccinated.”The promotion video triggered reactions on the social media and added to the criticism against Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavşoğlu’s previous remarks ensuring tourists on not encountering tourism personnel who are not vaccinated. “Sanitized resorts
Turkish Interior Ministry declared the closure of the liquor stores during the lockdown as part of the new measures against the rising Covid-19 pandemic, which will start at 7 pm on April 29 to end on May 17.The liquor stores are not included on the exemption list to be valid during the lockdown, Minister Süleyman
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared a full lockdown until May 17, following an April 26 cabinet meeting on measures to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 cases.The lockdown begins at 7 p.m. on April 29.“The number of cases should go down to less than 5,000 per day” Erdoğan said, adding that Turkey should not fall
Turkey has announced new measures, including weekend shutdowns, in the face of rising Covid-19 cases, with 58 provinces, where 80 percent of the population reside, are now under the category of very high risk. The Sunday curfews in “very high-risk” category provinces is expanded to Saturdays, President Recep Tayyin Erdoğan said, following a cabinet meeting
Women in many cities across Turkey took to the streets on March 20 to protest President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to retreat from the Istanbul Convention that introduces liabilities to prevent violence against women. In Istanbul, a large group gathered in the district of Kadıköy upon the call of the We Will Stop Femicide Platform
It would be appropriate to start this article with a question: “How much does biodiversity contribute to the economy?” Ecologists and economists have sought answers to such questions for decades. Governments of the developing countries, in particular, put forward their answers from different perspectives. Are they successful? My answer is no; because it was environmental
The news about Arsenal player Mesut Özil’s move to Fenerbahçe has come as a welcome fresh air to a league whose bleeding popularity has been further aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting from the day the news broke about his decision to join the İstanbul club, the mainstream media provided detailed information of the German-Turkish
Search and rescue efforts have been terminated in İzmir following the Oct. 30 earthquake that claimed 114 lives. The final efforts at the Rıza Bey Apartment, one of the 17 buildings that collapsed in central İzmir, was ended and removal of the debris began, said Mehmet Güllüoğlu, the chairman of Turkey’s disaster agency AFAD. The