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Türkiye’s Fight Against COVID-19 Pandemic

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

he World has met an unprecedented crisis on 12 December 2019. A
Tnovel coronavirus called “COVID-19” first appeared in Wuhan City
of China, later spreading around the world in a short time. On 10 March
2020, the World Health Organization declared the disease as a pandemic.

Humanity is facing a serious crisis. All the plans, routine life styles, dreams
and freedoms have been suspended for the sake of health. People had to
have a break in their normal life for a while in the ways never imagined. At
the beginning of the outbreak, unfortunately, some countries didn’t take the
pandemic seriously, so were late for taking measures to prevent the spread
of the virus. When the virus spread across the countries with terrorizing
results, the whole world had to take same measures to fight the pandemic,
though it was late.

At the start of the outbreak, when strict measures were launched, it was
seen in some countries that supermarkets and stores were looted, people got
panicked and scared. There were some moments when countries stumbled
in guiding their citizens and maintaining the order. Countries turned in
upon themselves, striving to fight against the pandemic with their own
means available.

As an institution for seeking legal remedies and protecting human
rights, the Ombudsman Institution of Türkiye has been closely following up
the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Türkiye as well as across the
world. In the meantime, it has continued to receive complaint applications
during the pandemic, and carefully examined them to resolve the disputes,
in this way contributing to the fight against the coronavirus in the country.

In this respect, the Institution prepared a “Special Report on Türkiye’s
Fight against the Pandemic” highlighting the last six months of the fight

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