Tag: Coronavirus
Istanbul — Turkey has the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 117,000 confirmed infections. More than 3,000 people have died. But the government claims to have a lower fatality rate than the global average estimated by the World ...
The Turkish president is writing the playbook for how to reframe a disastrous coronavirus death toll as a glorious success for the supreme leader Nothing seems to quench the authoritarian thirst for power, not ...
Two municipal workers in Istanbul spray disinfectant onto the streets in effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Editorial credit: Mahmut D / Shutterstock.com. While the government hesitated to confront the deadly coronavirus directly, a crackdown ...
The way autocratic regimes make use of the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting democracy and governance worldwide. Turkey is no exception. Faced with an increasing number of COVID-19 cases, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, ...
Erdogan sees this as an opportunity for Turkish manufacturers. Turkey confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus on March 11, but since then the speed of its infection rate has surpassed that of many ...
The Turkish government has imposed because of the Corona-crisis for this weekend in the short term, output restrictions in 31 cities. This also applies to the country’s largest city, the metropolis of Istanbul, such as ...
As chaos spills onto Turkish streets due to coronavirus, critics say the move is meant to undermine mayors The Turkish government is blocking money from the opposition-led municipalities of Istanbul and Ankara amid panic-buying ...
Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter on Sunday that he was resigning from his post over the implementation of a two-day curfew in major Turkish cities to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. Turkey announced ...
Despite the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in Turkey, the government is still dealing harshly with prisoners, reports Nora Koloyan-Keuhnelian Turkish journalist Hakan Aygun was sent to prison on Friday over Twitter posts thought to ...
… The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has forcefully reminded Turks of their deep underlying divisions. Those divisions are making it impossible for them to come together to fight a potential catastrophe that is national, not ideological. ...