Vedat Bulut

Inserted 3 years ago

“As a society, we have paid the price for normalisation with more deaths and more disease. It is clear that the way in which the clampdowns are applied in Turkey is not determined by scientific and objective criteria. For example, certain age groups were banned from the streets at certain times and this practice was not found to protect people over the age of 65. The measures were in contrast to the scientific facts of the virus. These practices are arbitrarily stretched according to the interests of capital. In the last week, current cases have increased by 50 to 60 percent. The number of provinces listed as low risk decreased from 14 to 5. The number of high and very high-risk areas increased. Even this situation developed independently of the effects of the process initiated on March 1, taking into account the incubation period of the virus. So we're going to start seeing the effects of these normalisation steps later this week.”

Aljazeera

General secretary of the Turkish Health Association