ISTANBUL – Turkey is set to scrap a series of social-distancing restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus outbreak, allowing for domestic travel to resume and a slate of businesses to reopen next week, as the rate of new infections and deaths slow dramatically, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
The government appears keen to kickstart the economy quickly after a two-month interruption of economic activity that has hit Turkish manufacturing and all but stalled its services sector.