Under the threat of the Covid-19, Ankara tightens the screw. "In the past 42 days, 6,362 social media accounts have been identified, 855 suspects have been identified and 402 people have been arrested," the Turkish Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday April 27.

Turkish authorities are relentlessly tracking people suspected of spreading rumors about the virus or who criticize the government's management of the epidemic. In late March, the interior minister reported that 410 other people had been arrested on charges similar to those mentioned on Monday.

Turkey has recorded more than 2,800 deaths from the new coronavirus and reports more than 110,000 cases of people infected. In mid-April, the parliament approved the release of tens of thousands of detainees in an attempt to unclog a prison environment threatened by the pandemic.

With AFP

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