Erdogan pressured to lock down Turkey amid coronavirus pandemic
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is being asked by national unions and the opposition to impose a lockdown in the country amid an alarming increase in the number of new infections, with 10,827 cases in Turkey less than three weeks after it registered its first case. Erdogan has so far resisted these demands, stating that the wheels of the economy must keep turning, and has called for voluntary self-isolation.
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