Amid a surge in confirmed coronavirus infections, Turkey is postponing all events related to science, culture and the arts, its president announced Friday.
“It is deemed appropriate to postpone any scientific, cultural, artistic and similar meetings or activities to be held in open or closed areas at national and international level until the end of April,” read the decree from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey’s Official Gazette, according to the Hürriyet newspaper.