COVID-19 Places: Turkey Working Group Update: 28 Sept 2020

As a group of researchers involved in the T-D-STS COVID-19 Project, and working on how the COVID-19 unfolds in Turkey, we focus on the following issues: the politics of data sharing, fact-checking practices, quarantine infrastructures, essential workers, science communication, and toxicity. 

This image is a twitter thread from a member of “Science Council” (established as part of the governance of pandemic in Turkey) making an explanation about the controversial “Turkey’s first corona report.” Mehmet Ekinci and Duygu Kasdogan currently prepares a discussion piece drawing on this controversial report by approaching this controversy as an ethnographic moment in learning about particular threads to explore scientific cultures in Turkey, more particularly, to unpack science-society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic.