Turkey’s Health Ministry has announced that the death toll from coronavirus has reached 28,569 since mid-March 2020. The country has reported over 8,400 new infections with less than 110 thousand daily tests.

Animal rights advocate Eray Özgüner calls for a fair law rather than a law that "protects the interest of capital groups."

Addressing the public after the Coronavirus Science Board meeting, Health Minister Koca has announced that there is no new coronavirus variant that originated in Turkey. He has also responded to the main opposition party's allegations about vaccines.

Turkey’s Health Ministry has announced that the death toll from coronavirus has reached 28,358 since mid-March 2020. 1,192 patients are in a critical condition.

While the country is expected to start a “gradual normalization” on a provincial basis as of March 1, the Health Ministry has reported 72 coronavirus fatalities, 660 patients and 9,561 new infections in the last 24 hours.

Seventeen percent of all new Covid cases in Turkey last week were reported in five Black Sea provinces.

A suspected ISIS operative who came from Iraq's Mosul with a child has been detained.

Having announced that the vaccination of teachers would begin in the last week of February, Minister of National Education received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine today. Teachers can also get the first jab in medical institutions, he has said.

Amid ongoing talks about a gradual normalization in Turkey as of March 1, the Health Ministry has reported 9,107 new coronavirus cases in a day, which marks the highest daily cases since January 13, 2021.

Turkey’s Health Minister Koca has shared the weekly statistics as to the number of COVID-19 cases per 100 thousand people. While no significant increase has been observed in 3 major cities, there has been an increase in the Black Sea region.

While Turkey’s Health Ministry has announced that the country’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 28,138 people, the country has reported 8,104 new infections with less than 120 thousand COVID-19 tests in a day.

On the one side, there are funerals and AKP congresses attended by large crowds, including top state officials; on the other side, they still urge people to “have 30 people at most” in ceremonies. “It undermines people’s sense of justice,” says Dr. Eroğulları.

Linguists, associations and writers working in and on Kurdish as well as HDP Co-Chair Sancar and DBP Co-Chairs Bayındır and Aydeniz have met in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır in the wake of International Mother Language Day.

Over the past week, a total of 31 thousand 197 people have faced administrative and/or legal action for failing to abide by the countrywide weeknight and weekend curfews introduced to curb the spread of the COVID-19.

Turkey prepares to gradually ease coronavirus measures on March 1.

According to a recent public survey conducted in eastern Turkey, 61.4 percent of people think that “economic crisis/ unemployment” is the biggest problem of the country, which is followed by the “Kurdish question” with 16.9 percent.

While Turkey’s Health Ministry has announced that the country’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 28,060 people, Health Minister Koca has confirmed that the country will start “gradual normalization” as of March 1.

The country's official death toll has reached 27,821 with 83 new fatalities.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has shared the results of its “Life Satisfaction Survey” for 2020. While 52.4 percent said that they were happy in 2019, this rate dropped to 48.2 percent last year.

Turkey will gradually start easing restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus as of March, President Erdoğan has announced.