Turkish health experts, workers call for social support ahead of 17-day Covid lockdown al-monitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from al-monitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ankara, Turkey – A year on from the first recorded case of COVID-19, Turkey is seeing a resurgence in infections as it begins to take tentative steps towards normalisation.
Last week, businesses such as cafés and restaurants were able to fully open for the first time since they were closed at the start of December when daily cases of about 30,000 saw the government impose evening and weekend lockdowns.
The preventive measures saw the number of cases per day fall to some 6,000 in mid-January, but the figure has since risen with the arrival of warmer weather and virus mutations, reaching nearly 14,000 late on Tuesday, a two-month high.
TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent pronouncements on human rights and freedom of expression were exposed as a mockery today after 66 journalists went on trial in just one day.
They faced a range of charges including spreading terrorist propaganda just days after the authoritarian ruler proclaimed that “nobody can be robbed of their freedoms because of a criticism or opinion,” as he laid out a new human rights action plan.
Some 46 journalists working in pro-Kurdish media including the now-closed Ozgur Gundem newspaper Dicle Haber Ajansi, Azadiya Welat, Demokratik Modernitecand Firat Dagitim were hauled before court for the twentieth time.
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A recent report has shown that while 88.2 percent of people working in Turkey’s software industry are men, only 11.8 are women: “While the pioneers of computer programming were mostly women, this lack of women’s representation is a critical issue.”
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The Constitutional Court has canceled the Presidential Communications Directorate’s authority of inspection over the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) on the grounds that the related authority renders the AA’s autonomy meaningless.
Rising food prices make the front page of a pro-government newspaper in the form of tips to save money at the supermarket; stablemate broadcaster ATV assists with a piece on the effectiveness of fasting diets: https://t.co/74hkSOJ0Gqhttps://t.co/ugQT2qo0ZV
Minimum wage has become an average wage in Turkey - Selay Dalaklı bianet.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bianet.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.