With more than 30,000 new daily infections, President Erdogan says he had no choice but to ‘minimise human mobility’.
![Healthcare workers wearing mask and protective suits take care of a patient at intensive care unit of Bornova Turkan Ozilhan State Hospital [File: Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1214795988.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

With more than 30,000 new daily infections, President Erdogan says he had no choice but to ‘minimise human mobility’.
![Healthcare workers wearing mask and protective suits take care of a patient at intensive care unit of Bornova Turkan Ozilhan State Hospital [File: Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1214795988.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Getting ‘tough on Turkey’ is a way for Biden to break with Trump’s respect for authoritarian leaders, analysts say.
![While President Donald Trump may have alienated some on the world stage, his relations with Turkey have generally been good [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-10-29T133334Z_876033978_RC2DSJ9ISP7L_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TURKEY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Dozens of teenagers have disappeared in recent years amid allegations they have been taken to fight for the PKK.
![Turkan Mutlu holds a photo of her daughter Ceylan who joined the PKK during a sit-in protest outside the HDP headquarters in Diyarbakir on October 17, 2019 [File: Sertac Kayar/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Turkey1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Despite raging rhetoric between Turkey and Greece, coastal dwellers pay little heed to ‘children’s games’.
![A Turkish warship in docks in Kas Marina as geopolitical tensions rise in the Eastern Mediterranean [Sami Kent/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/74232f820450452491db842a2a81b70f_18.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)