Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Bahçeli targeted the Turkish Medical Association, who protested the deceased health workers with black ribbons and the slogan, “You can’t govern, we die out.” “Turkish Medical Association must be shut down, legal action must be taken against its executives immediately,” Bahçeli said. He further described the Medical Association as a “structure of treason” after the association had stated, “we will always continue to remind those responsible of how they have blamed the citizens and put the entire weight on physicians and health workers in the fight against the pandemic.”
The Medical Association launched a statement on the matter and stated, “The Turkish Medical Association had spent its entire energy on defending the rights to life and health of our people, in every stage of the pandemic. Informing the public on the pandemic and warning people are the legal and ethical responsibilities of the Turkish Medical Association and our fight for life is a requirement for the responsibility of medical practice throughout the history. We stand behind our words and keep working.”
17.09.2020
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