{"id":111603,"date":"2026-08-04T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111603\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:20:10","slug":"turkish-health-minister-who-chief-meet-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111603\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Health minister, WHO chief meet in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Turkish health minister on Monday met in Geneva as part of 75th World Health Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Fahrettin Koca told WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that T\u00fcrkiye is trying to help low- and middle-income countries get access to COVID-19 vaccines, and is focusing on Africa in this context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Ghebreyesus for his part said he is pleased that T\u00fcrkiye produced the COVID-19 vaccine Turkovac. He added that the BioNTech vaccine can also be considered a Turkish vaccine since it was developed by scientists Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, a Turkish-German immigrant couple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, T\u00fcrkiye has donated nearly 7 million vaccine doses to 19 countries, according to the nation\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"_newLineNode_nkpt1_1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Turkish health minister on Monday met in Geneva&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[54579,65,33812,3505,27036],"class_list":["post-111603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-fahrettin-koca","tag-geneva","tag-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117037447584467352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}