A government announcement of the Corona vaccine provokes the anger of Turks

A Turkish government tourism promotional video showing airline employees and hospitality crews wearing yellow protective masks with the slogan "Enjoy! I Received the Vaccine" has sparked a wave of widespread anger among Turks.

Opposition circles said that the promotional video insults the Turks and the population, who have been waiting for a long time to obtain vaccines against Covid-19, amid a high outbreak of the epidemic in the country, while only about 13 percent of the population received the vaccine in Turkey.

On Thursday, the official tourist site "Go Turkey" published a video clip marketing tourism in the country, considering that it is a "safe haven" for foreign tourists, and the pictures showed tourists who do not wear masks on their faces while the service is provided to them inside hotels through employees who put cams. Double safety for tourism. Our guests call it peace of mind. ”This is how the aforementioned passage states,“ Resorts have been sterilized and employees have been vaccinated. ”

The video clip, which was later removed from the tourism platform, sparked angry responses and widespread criticism among the Turks, while activists activated a tag on Twitter calling for the resignation of Tourism Minister Muhammad Nuri Ersoy, and a tag meaning "sorry, I am Turkish" became among the most popular ..

And Turkey entered the end of last April, the most severe closure phase since the emergence of the Corona virus in the country, after the number of daily infections reached more than 62 thousand cases, but as a result of the restrictions imposed by the government, the number of daily infections fell to the limits of 11,500 cases.

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