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Sephardic Heritage International DC, in a special screening, presented the documentary ´Hermana´ by Enver Arcak on Sunday, May 10th.

In the Turkish magazine called ´Gercek Hayat´, an editorial containing hate speech towards the Jewish, Armenian, and Greek communities of Turkey was published.

30,303 tests were administered today, of these 2,253 people were diagnosed positive. 64 people lost their lives and 4,917 patients have recovered today.

Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca remarking that on Sunday the parks and streets would be open to only people over 65, said, "Crowded group of friends, even in parks, are still dangerous. Thank you for your patience."

The Molecular Biology Professor Dr. Ivet Bahar, with exceptional success, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), in hono...

Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca: "The daily number of diagnosed cases is below 2000 for the first time since March 30th. Our number of newly recovered patients is close to 2.5 times this number."

The daily number of administered tests passed 42,000, the number of diagnosed cases is 2,615, 93 people passed away on April 30th.

The number of recovering patients keep being more than the number of newly diagnosed cases. 43,498 tests were administered on April 29th and 2,936 were diagnosed positive.

Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca trying to show that social distancing is crucial in our struggle with Covid-19, stated with slogans and pictures in his Twitter account that we can´t be as close as we used to be and that we should put some distance between us.

According to the data on Monday, 4,651 patients have recovered as opposed to the 2,131 newly diagnosed cases.

While the difference between the recovering patients and newly diagnosed cases are increasing in a positive way, the specialists state that the precautions have to be followed.

Yakup Barouh, one of the experts of the advertisement industry in Turkey, President of ´İlancılık Advertising Agency´, one of the former presidents of the Turkish Jewish Community, has lost his life due to the complications related to Coronavirus. Barouh was 75 years old.

Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca gave a statement via Twitter.

37,535 tests have been administered, 3,083 people have been diagnosed positive, 117 people have lost their lives, and 1,559 people have recovered in the last 24 hours.

Turkish democracy had been founded 100 years ago by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and he entrusted it to the children, the next generations.

In the last 24 hours 1,488 COVID-19 patients have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals.

While the number of diagnosed cases was over ten percent of the number of administered tests in the last 24 hours, 4 days of lockdown have been announced for the upcoming weekend.

The Holocaust Memorial Ceremony which will have to be enacted online this year due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, will be live-streamed this evening.

The newly diagnosed cases are a little below 10 percent of the daily administered tests in Turkey.

The writer Ferhat Atik had an interview with Şalom Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Ivo Molinas about the media during quarantine days and the concept of minority journalism.