Conducting a hunger strike for more than eight months, Mustafa Koçak was forcibly taken to the hospital on March 12.

While refugees are still waiting at Turkey-Greece border to cross into the other side, refugee LGBTI+s have spoken to Kaos GL Association about their living conditions and problems: “They have forgotten about us. They do not even talk about us.”

Dozens of people who were put under quarantine attempted to escape yesterday, engaging in a brawl with the police, while 28 people were rounded up as they were trying to escape.

Central Bank has reduced the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) from 10.75 to 9.75 percent: “The pandemic disease is closely monitored for its evolving global impact on capital flows, financial conditions, international trade and commodity prices."

The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has released a written statement and offered a series of measures to be taken during coronavirus outbreak so that workers suffer the least harm in this period.

Three refugees have been killed by the police force of Greece as crossings continue, the Edirne Governor's Office has announced.

The citizens who will return to Turkey from Germany, Spain, France, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands will be quarantined in students’ dormitories in İstanbul and Kocaeli for a period of 14 days.

An employee of the Türkiye newspaper was killed while doing a work that wasn't included in his job description.

Listing 14 recommendations, nine rights organizations, unions and professional chambers have called on the state and prison administrations to take necessary precautions to protect the prisoners and prison personnel from coronavirus.

A recent survey by KONDA Research and Consultancy has shown that 45 percent of the society think that the state has taken necessary precautions against coronavirus outbreak and informed the public sufficiently.

Those who claimed that the government is hiding the cases and not taking necessary measures are being probed, the Minister of Interior has announced.

Asst. Prof. Baykan from Yeditepe University has been closely monitoring the events with no women invited for the last three years and asking the organizers the reason for the absence of women. Baykan has shared his observations with bianet.

While the Ministry of Interior has announced that all bars, restaurants, cafes, wedding venues, movie theaters and indoors chlidren’s play areas have been temporarily closed, flights from six other countries have also been suspended over coronavirus.

The Health Minister has announced 29 more coronavirus cases, bringing the total number to 47.

The association has urged the Health Ministry to perform more tests and announce the results to the public, while a union has warned about an "equipment shortage."

Four refugees who were injured by the security forces of Greece on Turkey-Greece border have applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). 25 other refugees are also reportedly preparing to apply to the European supreme court.

After Turkey confirmed its first case of Covid-19, the use of public transport has significantly decreased in the metropolis.

In a statement released by the Governor’s Office of İstanbul, it has been announced that the citizens who come to İstanbul from nine European countries will be quarantined in three students’ dormitories for a period of 14 days.

Behind bars since March 1, Yakın Doğu Haber news website Editor-in-Chief Dursunoğlu has been sentenced to 50 days in prison for “praising an offense and offender.” The court has turned his prison term into a judicial fine and ruled for his release.

More measures have been announced as the Covid-19 tally rises to 18 cases in Turkey.