by Nilhan Cacan | May 28, 2020 | Koç University
Taiwan remains as reporting one of the lowest cases in COVID-19 disease. With the state’s meticulous and early measures, the world needs to be looking up for the precautions. However, the World Health Organization still rejects Taiwan from becoming a member, which is...
by Atakan Arda | May 23, 2020 | Koç University
The coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the globe, has affected many countries, but there are not many of them as affected as Italy has been. To this date (23.05.2020) Italy has seen over 225,000 cases and over 32,000 deaths. On a country level, the measures that...
by Beyza Işık Aksoy | Apr 28, 2020 | Bilkent University
Turkey was already notorious for its growing liquidation in the country’s media outlets. Erdogan’s strong men regime was pretty determined to not to provide even a glimmer of hope for the opposition, going after every journalist or media profession who...
by Kaan Akcay | Apr 28, 2020 | Bilkent University
The coronavirus outbreak raises some interesting questions for the social scientists and the general public. Most importantly, why are some countries more successful than the others? Differentiation between the success of the countries against the outbreak creates an...
by Selen Esencay | Apr 27, 2020 | Bilkent University
On April 15, the Polish Parliament enacted the “Stop Abortion” bill. Although the Sejm[1] decided to redirect the bill for further review in parliamentary committees, the government was criticized for taking advantage of the COVID-19’s restrictive measures to...