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Study finds ‘higher levels of anxiety, behavioral disorders’ in students during pandemic

DISTANCE EDUCATION

Study finds ‘higher levels of anxiety, behavioral disorders’ in students during pandemic

According to a report prepared by the Education and Science Laborers’ Union, students suffered significant losses in their cognitive, emotional, social and psychomotor development during the distance education period in 2020-2021.

23 February 2022

Romani people during the pandemic: Both discrimination and violence on the increase

Romani people during the pandemic: Both discrimination and violence on the increase

Prepared as part of the Roma Dialogue Network’s Reinforcement Project, a recent report sheds light on the problems encountered by Romani people in Turkey during the pandemic: Aggravated discrimination, increasing poverty, more blatant violence.

21 February 2022 Evrim Kepenek

A year in Turkey’s prisons amid pandemic: Prisoners unable to access healthcare

2020 ANNUAL REPORT

A year in Turkey’s prisons amid pandemic: Prisoners unable to access healthcare

The Civil Society in the Penal System Association has released its annual report on Turkey’s prisons: One of the major problems facing prisoners in 2020 was the violation of their right to access healthcare.

8 February 2022

Turkey's Health Ministry changes PCR test, quarantine conditions

COVID-19

Turkey's Health Ministry changes PCR test, quarantine conditions

Minister of Health Koca has made a statement after the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board meeting: The PCR test will only be applied to those who have symptoms and the ones who have received their booster shots will not be quarantined.

13 January 2022

Pandemic in Turkey’s prisons | ‘36 people stay in a quarantine ward’

COVID-19

Pandemic in Turkey’s prisons | ‘36 people stay in a quarantine ward’

From the report of the Civil Society in the Penal System Association: “In some prisons, quarantine areas are arranged as wards and prisoners stay there in large groups of 26-36 people. There are blood and urine stains on some beds and bed sheets.”

Turkey imposes travel ban on 5 countries amid concerns over ‘Omicron’ variant

COVID-19

Turkey imposes travel ban on 5 countries amid concerns over ‘Omicron’ variant

Turkey has imposed a ban on travel from five African countries after the emergence of a new coronavirus variant, the Omicron, which has been declared the “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO).

29 November 2021

Physicians urge the authorities to recognize COVID-19 as an occupational disease

Physicians urge the authorities to recognize COVID-19 as an occupational disease

The Turkish Medical Association and medical chambers from different cities have underlined that 484 health workers have so far died of COVID-19, calling on the authorities to recognize it as an occupational disease as soon as possible.

28 October 2021

‘What is the rate of COVID-19 vaccination in Turkey’s prisons?’

‘What is the rate of COVID-19 vaccination in Turkey’s prisons?’

The Ankara Medical Chamber and the Health and Social Service Laborers’ Union (SES) Ankara Branch have urged the authorities to announce the COVID-19 vaccination rates of prisoners and prison personnel in Turkey.

1 September 2021

Fires and pandemic

DR. OSMAN ELBEK WRITES

Fires and pandemic

The world is being heated. We are the ones heating the world. More precisely, the transnational companies, which exploit us as well, are the ones heating it. But, be that a fire or pandemic, we pay the price for it all together.

3 August 2021 Osman Elbek