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• Corona pandemic: Latest from Turkey 

  According to official figures, 168 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey. Health organizations assume much higher numbers.
• HDP co-chair: The virus spread as the government acted too late 

  HDP co-chair Mithat Sancar criticises the Turkish government's policy in the corona crisis and announces the establishment of an alternative nationwide crisis centre involving professional organisations and trade unions.
• Portugal regularizes migrants in COVID-19 emergency 

  Portugal government regularize migrants showing that measure protecting everyone can be taken if there is political will.
• Sinn Féin calls on government to produce COVID-19 tests 

  In order to test as many people as possible and find out the true scale of the virus is across the State, we must have enough testing kits, said Louise O’Reilly.
• HDK: Let's establish solidarity networks everywhere 

  HDK said in a statement that AKP-MHP policies have increased the spread of coronavirus and added: "Let us establish public solidarity networks everywhere".
• Dr Yıldırım: Prisons could turn into morgues 

  HDP Mardin former deputy Gülser Yıldırım's husband, Dr. Kamuran Yıldırım, said that the Covid-19 pandemic poses a great risk to political prisoners and added: "If they keep them there, prisons will turn into morgues."
• Spanish government "hibernates" economy to counter Covid-19 

  Spanish government said it was “hibernating” the country's economy in a bid to avoid the health system becoming overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients.
• Wuhan slowly comes back to life 

  Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, is slowly coming back to life.
• CHP's Ağbaba questions coronavirus figures given by government 

  There are heavy doubts about what the Turkish government is saying about the outbreak and it is worrying that it is not taking action.
• Covid-19: 23 more dead, 1,815 more cases detected in Turkey 

  Death toll rose to 131 and the total cases to 9,217.
• Over 1.5 billion students affected by COVID-19 school closures 

  “Never before have we witnessed educational disruption on such a scale,” said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay.
• PKK Commander Mahsum Korkmaz remembered in Marseille 

  With a spectacular action in Marseille, activists of the Kurdish youth movement commemorated the guerrilla commander Mahsum Korkmaz. Under his responsibility, "the first shot" of the PKK was fired 36 years ago.
• "Dismissed health care workers must be allowed to work" 

  HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu is a doctor and is one of the 15,000 health care professionals who have been dismissed from the civil service for political reasons. He calls for a change in Turkish health policy.
• Baş: The government doesn't protect workers  

  After the coronavirus was detected in Turkey no effective measures have been taken to protect workers, especially those working in construction. 
• Spanish government tightens lockdown 

  Ministers will approve the confinement of non-essential workers to their homes for the next two weeks.
• Lockdown begins in the North of Ireland  

  The North of Ireland executive has introduced "sweeping new powers" to fight the spread of coronavirus. The new measures came into effect at 11 pm on Saturday. 
• Protest against refugee policy in Berlin 

  In Berlin, a demonstration was staged against the refugee policy of the German government and the EU.
• Coronavirus: 7,402 infected, 108 dead in Turkey 

  108 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 7,402 have been infected so far.
• Kurdish umbrella organisations: Nobody must be abandoned 

  "We must maintain a social approach to the Corona pandemic that is based on solidarity and rules," warn the KCDK-E and TJK-E and call for the time to be used for education.
• 3 Kurds and 12 Chaldeans die of coronavirus in Paris 

  Three Kurds and 12 people from the Chaldean community living in Paris and suburbs have died of Covid-19.
• HDP asks government about fate of paid teachers in COVID-19 time 

  The HDP pointed out that the AKP is leaving paid teachers without salary during the coronavirus emergency.
• Revenge Units target police and drug dealers in Amed 

  Revenge Units carried out actions against Turkish police and drug dealers in Amed.
• HDP launches video campaign to "stay at home" in many languages 

  The videos have been published in many languages, Turkis, Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian and also in the Syriac language.
• President Erdogan announces new measures to counter epidemic 

  Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced tonight that the new measures will be meticolously implemented in the bigger 30 cities.
• 300-year-old Yazidi graveyard desecrated 

  The 300-year-old Yazidi graveyard in Nusaybin was desecrated.