Meteorologist Ökten has warned that 250 kilograms of rainfall is expected in Ardeşen, Fındıklı and Arhavi districts in the East Black Sea region of Turkey within 24 hours: “Evacuate the houses near streams. Don’t take precautions. Evacuate them.”

Assoc. Prof. Altındiş from Harvard University has warned that the COVID-19 cases have been increasing in Turkey in such a way that the country is now headed to the 4th peak, raising concerns that the restrictions have been prematurely lifted.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 223 thousand tests were conducted, 14,230 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 55 people died of the disease and 547,997 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Heading for Italy, a boat carrying around 45 Syrian refugees capsized off the coast of Greece’s Crete Island. Running out of fuel, the boat reportedly capsized due to bad weather conditions. The search and rescue efforts are still ongoing.

A stream has overflowed its banks due to heavy rainfall in Arhavi district in Turkey’s eastern Black Sea province of Artvin, badly affecting the district center and village roads and causing several people to be stranded.

According to the weekly data shared by the Health Ministry regarding the COVID-19 outbreak in Turkey, the numbers of cases and patients increased in the week of July 10-16 while the number of fatalities decreased in a week.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 214 thousand tests were conducted, 9,586 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 52 people died of the disease and 475,676 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Heavy rainfall has led to floods in Rize’s Fındıklı district and Artvin’s Arhavi district in the Black Sea region. Vehicles have been submerged and several houses and workplaces have been flooded.

The Health Ministry data has shown that the rate of positive COVID-19 tests has increased almost twofold in the last 10 days while July 18, when 66 people lost their lives, saw the highest number of daily fatalities in the related period.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 184 thousand tests were conducted, 8,151 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 59 people died of the disease and 181,042 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

The deepening of social and ecological problems of neoliberal capitalism and its vulnerability to the existing climate, financial, political, and health crises that we are experiencing accelerated the search for solutions and revealed degrowth as a strong alternative.

The number of Covid cases has been on the rise since the reopening at the start of the month.

Daily new infections have been on the rise despite the vaccination campaign.

Turkey plans to introduce its domestically produced vaccine by the end of the year, Erdoğan has said.

At least six people died, with two people missing, in flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in the Black Sea province of Rize.

The samples taken from the Kızılırmak River by the teams of Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Directorate have shown that the fish kill was caused by a lack of oxygen as a result of high air temperatures.

Taken into custody over the armed attack on HDP Marmaris office in Muğla, assailant A.T.D. has been arrested while four others who were allegedly involved in the attack have been released on probation.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 233 thousand tests were conducted, 7,680 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 66 people died of the disease and 473,508 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Two of the six people who lost their lives in the Rize flood in the Black Sea region of Turkey have been laid to rest. While one citizen has been wounded in a lightning strike in Van, floods in eastern Kars and Ağrı provinces have caused material damage.

In a letter to the Council of Higher Education, the TTB has underlined that the WMA Declaration of Geneva is “binding for all physicians”, noting that “no definition in the physician-patient relationship can be a reason for privilege or discrimination.”