Stating that coronavirus precautions taken in prisons are insufficient, Ato Secretary General Ali Karakoç said: "The sick prisoners must be released without losing any time."
ÇHD Second Chair Ümit Büyükdağ stated that the demands of his friends who are on hunger strike are affordable demands and demanded that concrete steps must be taken as soon as possible.
Food- Trade Union President Seyit Aslan who reacted to the government who took some precautions against the coronavirus in public sector but only gave advices to the private sector, leaving the initiative to them, said the workers have a right to stop production if necessary measures are not taken.
Grup Yorum members İbrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek who are on a death fast were discharged from the hospital they were admitted to where they were taken to for forced feeding.
The Turkish government has announced that they have detected 29 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
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.
A group of journalists have formed an initiative entitled “Haberin Var Mı” (Have You Heard) and launched a campaign on Twitter to raise concerns and publicity about the arrested journalists in Turkey: “We will not bow to anyone, we will not stay silent.”
The deposition of dozens of people including attorneys in Urfa have started.
While the Ministry of Interior has ordered the temporary closure of all bars and nightclubs in all 81 provinces in Turkey as of 10 a.m. today, flights from nine countries have been suspended as of this midnight.
The students who were removed from their dormitories where the people coming from Omra were placed, stating that they were removed from their rooms with the pretext of disinfecting the dorm rooms, said: "Our belongings are still in there. Many of our friends had to spend the night out on the street."
Economist Bahadır Özgür, stating that a more unstable economy will be faced globally because the coronavirus brought the production in China to a halt and that will increase the costs, said Turkey will also be greatly effected by this.
TUHAYDER manager Nazım Adıgüzel drawing attention to the prisons which are a risk group in terms of the spread of the coronavirus, said the areas used by the guards are being disinfected while the wards of the prisoners aren't.
The planned parliamentary elections in Syria have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to official information, there are no infections in Syria yet, SOHR, however, reports 113 cases. There are no testing possibilities in NE Syria.
Number of new COVID-19 cases is 12 while total number is 18, says country’s health minister Fahrettin Koca.
Turkish directorate of religious affairs said in a statement regarding Umrah that the departures from Turkey to Umrah have not been allowed since February 27 2020.