Reuters - Turkeys confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday, overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the Middle East. An increase of 3,783 cases in the last 24 hours also pushed Turkeys confirmed tally within a few hundred of China, where the novel coronavirus ...

Reuters - Turkey confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on Wednesday, becoming the last major economy to report an outbreak after taking what the World Health Organization (WHO) described as vigilant, cautious measures to delay the disease. Turkeys tourism sector, which accounts for about 13% of its economy, stepped up calls on the government ...

Reuters - All 132 passengers and crew on a Turkish Airlines plane from Tehran will be quarantined for 14 days and tested for possible coronavirus infection at a hospital in Ankara, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Tuesday. The flight from Tehran was carrying Turkish nationals home after Ankara closed its border with Iran this weekend ...

MNA Iranian Ambassador to Ankara Mohammad Farazmand met and held talks with Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca on Tuesday. The two sides discussed the joint efforts of Iran and Turkey to fight and control the spread of the coronavirus. Farazmand stressed the cooperation of the Iranian and Turkish health ministries to prevent the spread of ...

Reuters - Turkey has closed its border with Iran and halted incoming flights as a precaution to stop the potential spread of coronavirus after the neighboring country reported 43 cases of the disease, the health minister said on Sunday. All highways and railways were closed as of 5 p.m. (14:00 GMT) and flights from Iran suspended, Health Minister ...