Журнал. World association for medical law. The COVID-19 pandemic. Volume 39 2

318 Medicine and Law kidney disease, hypertension or liver disease 2 . The preventive measures have been introduced, by virtue of different administrative procedures, by different authorities of the government. The variety of the authorities that introducing measures, and the procedure that is followed worth a mention to understand the administrative framework of the Covid-19 spread in Turkey. Furthermore, the drastic measures beg the question of the acceptable boundaries of such impositions. This leads to the question of ‘ where are the boundaries of privacy in the time of a pandemic? ’ To provide a vivid illustration of the situation in Turkey, firstly, the relevant measures that were introduced by the Turkish authorities, will be looked into. Many administrative parts of the government worked in harmony and the administrative information, regarding the measures that have been taken, will be provided in the relevant timeline. Secondly, the health infrastructure of Turkey will be analysed together with some issues that may be seen as advantageous to understand the extent of Turkey’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Thirdly, the right to access to information and the nature of privacy in a pandemic will be discussed from the perspective of the implementations adopted in Turkey. These issues, perhaps being overlooked to a certain degree during a pandemic in some countries, the situation regarding these issues and the level of protection of the rights and privacy will be analysed from the perspective of Turkey. A timeline of the pandemic in Turkey and the preventive steps taken by the authorities will be revealed below. The Timeline of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Turkey Anumber of public health measures have been taken by the Turkish authorities. 1 st of February Turkey performed the initial Covid-19 related evacuation operation, by bringing 32 Turkish citizens plus 6 Azerbaijani, 3 Georgian and 1 Albanian citizens back to Turkey. 3 2 Official Gazette, 24 March 2020; https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/ eskiler/2020/03/20200324M1.pdf 3 Şencan, İrfan; Kuzi, Semanur; ‘ Global threat of Covid 19 and evacuation of citizens of different countries ’, Turk J Med Sci (2020) 50; 534-543, 538.