President Erdogan says Turkey has for the first time seized the opportunity to be in the centre of changes since WW2
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends AK Party Central Executive Committee meeting on coronavirus pandemic measures via video conference in Istanbul, Turkey on April 21, 2020.
Cases of the Covid-19 disease have risen to 95,591 in Turkey with the death toll at 2,259. In turn Ankara has adopted increasingly tight measures to curb the spread. President Erdogan also said: "Turkey has for the first time seized the opportunity to be in the centre of changes since the Second World War."
As part of efforts to tighten those measures, Erdogan said on Monday a four-day lockdown would be imposed in 31 cities from Thursday after similar stay-at-home orders were enforced over the last two weekends.
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