Turkey bringing home citizens stranded in Europe amid coronavirus lockdowns
Turkey will quarantine its citizens who return home after travel abroad.
As Turkey grapples with a growing coronavirus outbreak, the government will bring home some 3,000 Turkish citizens stranded in the nine European countries on Turkey’s new banned-travel list.
"Those 3,614 citizens will be brought home by 34 Turkish Airlines charter flights by midnight on Tuesday," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.
The returning travelers will be quarantined for 14 days in dormitories in Istanbul and Kocaeli province in northwestern Turkey.
After implementing what the World Health Organization described as “vigilant” measures to curb the disease, Turkey became the last major world economy to announce coronavirus on its soil last week.
