Street weddings and large celebrations will be banned in all provinces in Turkey, a Sept. 2 decree from the Interior Ministry said amid a rising number of COVID-19 diagnoses and deaths in the country.
The mayors of Turkey’s two biggest cities have accused the central government of covering up the true scale of a coronavirus resurgence in the country. Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, and Mansur Yavas, mayor of Ankara, said there was a
“At the moment the numbers we see in Istanbul are almost the same exact numbers announced for the whole of Turkey; what about the other provinces then? Are they announcing only one city’s daily numbers?” “Hereby we open a new discussion; which we do not really intend to but we must. I see the numbers myself, we submit them to politicians too but any political figure raising up this issue is..
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