Fahrettin Koca

Thousands of health professionals on March 14 convened in several marches and events to mark National Medicine Day, also dubbed as National Doctors' Day, calling for improved working conditions and an end to violence in hospitals.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced that the significantly high patient density in intensive care units (ICUs), which was observed at the beginning of the month, has returned to normal levels.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to the United Arab Emirates and Egypt on historic visits both for regional and bilateral reasons amid the continued Israeli massacres against the Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Millions of people across Turkey on Tuesday mourned the loss of more than 53,000 friends, loved ones and neighbors in the country's catastrophic earthquake a year ago.

To mark what it calls the "Disaster of the Century," the government arranged a series of events to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the disaster in southern Turkey.

Prominent writer and thinker Alev Alatlı, who was awarded the Presidential Culture and Art Grand Prize in 2014 and is known for her exceptional works, was buried after her funeral ceremony that took place at the Eyüp Sultan Mosque on Feb. 3 following the noon prayer.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has spoken about the surge in upper respiratory tract infections, revealing that Istanbul saw the biggest increase in cases in Türkiye.

Answering the questions of journalists after a cabinet meeting, Koca said that the current increase of infections was expected due to the seasonal conditions of winter months and that there was no cause for worry.

Türkiye has undertaken four more expeditions to bring over 200 sick and injured individuals from the strife-ridden Gaza Strip for urgent medical treatment.

Two out of the 114 patients evacuated from the war-torn Gaza Strip to Türkiye have lost their lives, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Dec. 6.

The casualties, both adults, succumbed to skin and lung cancers with widespread metastases, the minister detailed.

Another group of 68 people including Turkish citizens and their family members arrived in Istanbul early on Dec. 6 after being evacuated from the war-torn Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a visit to cancer patients transferred to Türkiye from Gaza and receiving treatment in Ankara.

Erdoğan arrived at the Oncology Hospital, where patients are being treated, joined by Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, the hospital's Chief Physician, and doctors.