Salos with Erdogan: He gave a third dose of vaccine while 50 million Turks are waiting

His statement-admission has been causing a stir in Turkey since yesterday Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he has done three doses of coronavirus vaccine, at a time when 50 million Turks are still waiting to make the first tranche.

According to the Turkish media, during live interview on the state-run TRT network Erdogan admitted (or escaped…) that he has done three doses of the vaccine. “Then I checked if there was an increase in my antibody levels. I arrived on 2,160 (units per millimeter)“, He stated.

Immediately the reactions against the Turkish president were great and intense. The opposition and many social media users launched a fierce attack against him. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP, Ozgur Ezel asked “from which the right arises Erdogan to give extra doses of the vaccine when even the country’s healthcare workers are unable to do so. “You have to give an explanation, if you got the vaccine at the end of 2020, when it was not yet available to anyone in the country,” he said.

In the dance of criticism and the president of the Association of Infectious Diseases in Turkey, Mehmet Ceyhan: “Nowhere in the world is the third dose of the vaccine applied,” stressed. Erdogan gave the first dose of the Chinese vaccine on January 14 and the second on February 11, while it remains unknown when he said he took the third dose.

“It seems that all its members [κυβερνώντος κόμματος] AKP have been vaccinated. “And we wonder why there are no more vaccines,” a Twitter user commented as she recorded in Turkey. yesterday Wednesday. another 7,181 new cases and 112 deaths. Over 16.6 million citizens have taken the first dose and at least 12.5 million have done both doses, but according to local media the country is facing an acute problem of lack of vaccines.

(Photo is from the Turkish president’s vaccination in January)