Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bursa, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Istanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, in the circular sent by the Ministry of the Interior to 81 provincial governorships, between the hours of 24 April and 24:00 on April 22. It was stated that all citizens in the provincial borders of Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Ordu, Sakarya, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Tekirdağ, Trabzon and Van and Zonguldak were restricted for 4 days.
WORKING HOURS OF THE MARKETS AND Groceries ARE PROHIBITED BEFORE BAN
According to the circular, the working hours of markets and grocery stores were determined as 08.00-23.00 on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 and Wednesday, April 22, 2020, due to the aim of keeping the effects of curfew restriction / ban on daily life to a minimum.
To be limited to meeting the mandatory needs of citizens (except 65 and over and 20 and below) on Thursday, April 23, 2020 and Friday, April 24, 2020, where curfews and groceries are restricted. provided that they do not drive (except disabled citizens) they will be able to go to the nearest markets and grocery stores.
Between the same hours, markets and grocery stores will also be able to sell to houses / addresses. Markets and grocery stores will be closed on Saturday, April 25, 2020 and Sunday, April 26, 2020.
OPEN BUSINESS, BUSINESS AND INSTITUTIONS
According to the Circular, between 23-26 April 2020, bakery and / or bakery-licensed workplaces where bread production is made, and only those dealers selling bread, as well as workplaces where desserts are produced / sold (Only bread, bakery and dessert can be sold) will be open.
On April 23, 2020, on Friday, April 24, 2020, citizens will not be able to go out, and on April 25, 2020 Saturday and Sunday, April 26, 2020, sweet workplaces will only be able to sell to houses / addresses.
Carrying out activities related to the production, transportation and sales of restaurants and restaurants, medicines, medical devices, medical masks and disinfectants between April 23-26, which is the days of curfew restriction / prohibition due to the month of Ramadan. workplaces, public and private health institutions and organizations, pharmacies, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals, public institutions and organizations and enterprises necessary for the maintenance of compulsory public services (Airports, ports, border gates, customs, highways, nursing homes, elderly nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, Emergency Call Centers, AFAD Units, Vefa Social Support Units, Migration Management, PTT etc.) will be open.
VEGETABLE AND FRUIT AREAS WILL BE OPEN ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
In addition, a number of fuel stations and tire repairers to be determined by the governorships / district governorships, one for every 50 thousand inhabitants, and one for every 50 kilometers on intercity roads and motorways, if any, through the provincial borders. tire repairers will be determined by the draw method and the markets of the on-duty fuel stations will be open), large plants and businesses (such as refinery and petrochemical plants, thermal and natural gas conversion plants), water, newspaper and kitchen tube distribution. companies, animal shelters, animal farms and animal care centers, emergency construction, equipment etc. to increase the capacity of health services. The enterprises / companies carrying out the activities are provided with the facilities where the production of foodstuffs such as pasta, flour and bakery products, milk, meat, fish, and hygiene materials, such as paper and cologne, are provided, by the Provincial / District Hygiene Board of the place where it is located. production facilities that provide packaging for industries such as the facilities where the raw materials to be produced are produced, domestic and international transportation (including export / import / transit) and logistics, hotels and accommodation, food, cleaning and medicine, employees in the construction area / mining The major construction and mines, newspaper, radio and television organizations and newspaper printing presses that are under construction or in operation at the construction site in the field, are subject to export that have been previously contracted / committed and must be grown within the specified period; Workshops and facilities producing goods, materials, products, equipment and vegetables and fruits will be open on Thursday, 23 April 2020 and Friday, 24 April 2020, where there is a curfew / prohibition.
PROHIBITED EXEMPTIONS
Those who work in the offices, businesses and institutions that will be open within the scope of the circular, those who are in charge of ensuring public order and security, those who are in charge of ensuring public order and security (including private security officers), including on Thursday, 23 April 2020, Emergency Call Centers, Those who work in AFAD, Red Crescent and Vefa Social Support Units, those who work in funeral burials (religious officials, hospital and municipal officials etc.) and those who will attend the funerals of their first degree relatives, electricity, water, natural gas, telecommunications etc. Those who are in charge of maintaining the transmission and infrastructure systems that should not be interrupted and eliminating their failures, those who are involved in the transportation or logistics of products and / or materials (including cargo), domestic and international transportation, storage and related activities, elderly nursing home, nursing home, rehabilitation centers , children’s homes, etc. employees of social protection / care centers, those with ‘Special Needs’ such as autism, severe mental retardation, down syndrome and their parents / guardians or companions, iron-steel, glass, ferrochrome, etc. Those who work in the departments of the workplaces operating in the sectors that require compulsory operation such as high grade mine / ore melting furnaces and cold stores will be exempted from the ban.
The employees of the data processing centers of institutions, organizations and enterprises, which have a widespread service network, especially in banks, who work in the production, processing, marketing and transportation of vegetable and animal products at risk of deterioration, those who graze cattle-cattle, those who carry out beekeeping, will feed the street animals. people will go out to meet the compulsory needs of their pets provided that they are limited with the front of their residence, veterinarians, bread distribution, markets and grocery stores, home workers, compulsory health appointments (including blood and plasma donations to Kızılay), dormitory, hostel, construction site etc. those who are in charge of meeting the basic needs that will be required by those who stay in collective places, employees who are at risk of leaving their workplaces due to occupational health and safety (workplace doctor, etc.), technical service workers, sowing required for the continuity of agricultural production, on condition that they are outside to provide service. -Work permitted by Provincial / District Hygiene Boards according to regional characteristics within the scope of activities such as planting, irrigation-spraying, staff to work at the weekend to carry out public transportation, cleaning, solid waste, water and sewage, spraying, fire and cemetery services, curfew / with the aim of ensuring that the supply chain will not be interrupted between 06:00 and 09:00 on Thursday, April 23, 2020 and Friday, April 24, 2020, and after 18:00 on Sunday, April 26, 2020; Those who are in charge of transportation, storage, acceptance of goods and preparation for sale to markets and vegetable-fruit states will be exempted from the ban.
While it was stated that all citizens should stay in their homes except for the exceptions mentioned, it was stated that the travel permit documents will be valid during the curfew restriction / prohibition, and necessary measures will be taken by the municipalities to ensure the public transportation of the public officials who are in charge of establishing the public order, especially health and safety.
BREAD DISTRIBUTION PLAN WILL BE DONE
According to the circular, the commission to be formed under the chairmanship of the governors and district governors, with the participation of bakers’ room, local government, police and gendarmerie representatives, in order to ensure regular bread distribution, will receive a muhtar opinion for each neighborhood, and a province / county bread distribution plan will be made, in this plan, the bread producing business in the province / district will be prepared. The distribution lists (neighborhood / street / street scale) to which the locations are responsible and the vehicle lists that will serve for each distribution region will be determined. Apart from planning to be made in this way, only Vefa Social Support Units will be able to distribute bread.
On Friday, April 23, 2020 and Friday, April 24, 2020, with curfews / prohibitions, newspaper distribution / sales will be made through markets and grocery stores. On Saturday, April 25, 2020 and Sunday, April 26, 2020, newspaper distribution will be carried out only through newspaper companies’ own distribution vehicles to operate in the ring, drinking water distribution dealers and Vefa Social Support Units.
PROCEDURES WILL BE CARRIED OUT TO those who do not comply with the law
The Ministry asked the governors / district governors to make the necessary decisions regarding the measures in question promptly, to avoid any difficulties in practice and not to cause grievances. In addition, it was stated that the necessary judicial proceedings will be initiated within the scope of Article 195 of the Turkish Penal Code regarding the behaviors that constitute a crime, in accordance with the relevant articles of the law, in particular to the administrative fine, in accordance with the article 282 of the Public Sanitary Law, to the citizens who do not comply with the decisions taken. (DHA)
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