Turkey brings COVID-19 patient home from Sweden for treatment

Turkey on Sunday brought home one of its citizens from Sweden who contracted coronavirus but was not given treatment. A Turkish air ambulance left Malmo Airport at 9 a.m. local time (0700GMT) and arrived at the Ankara Esenboğa Airport at 1:30 p.m. local time (1030GMT). After routine health checks, the patient Emrullah Gülüşken, 47, and …

Elderly coronavirus cases allegedly not intensive care in Sweden

The new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic that brings life to a halt worldwide is also testing the health system of countries. Throughout this process, some countries succeeded, while others began to choose patients due to the insufficient health system. According to the news of Aftonbladet newspaper, the patient started to be selected for intensive …

A municipality in Sweden wants money for transporting seniors’ bags

Kerstin Hedman (92) is living alone in Sundsvall, Sweden. She has heart disease. She doesn’t want to go to market because of coronavirus. She wanted help from Sundsvall Municipality. Hedman:” I m living alone and there is no one to help me in this building. I m going to market alone. I am paying 370 SEK (250 Turkish Lira) …

Situation of Islamophobia in Sweden and “Caliphate”

With the lockdowns and social distancing practices increasing across the world due to the global pandemic of Covid-19, everybody has more time for watching films or TV series. And the most popular digital platform for this activity is the Netflix with 167 million subscribers. And one of the TV series is the Swedish made ‘Caliphate’, …

Sweden leaving elder COVID19 patients to die, care worker says

Nursing homes are offering morphine to elder COVID-19 patients instead of admitting them to hospitals and providing ventilators, one care worker has said, noting that such treatment results in a painful death. Latifa Löfvenberg, who worked in one of the country’s many nursing homes, told BBC reporter Jon Tallinger in a Youtube program that elder …

Swedish Prime Minister Defends COVID-19 Response

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven defended his country’s strategy in fighting the spread of COVID-19, pushing back on the notion Sweden has taken a “business as usual” attitude toward the pandemic. Speaking to foreign correspondents Friday in the capital, Stockholm, Lofven insisted life is not carrying on as normal in Sweden, as he said its …

Sweden: Arson attack targets Muslim children’s school

A fire broke out on Sunday at a private school in central Sweden where Muslim children are educated, said media reports. Hussein Aldaodi, the principal of Alsalamskolan School in the province of Orebro, told Swedish state broadcaster SVT that footage on school security cameras showed two people setting fire to the school. “In the footage, …

Compensation will be paid to the woman who is wanted to be fired for wearing a headscarf in Sweden

According to the written statement of the Swedish Discrimination Ombudsman, a Muslim woman working in the municipality’s elderly people’s home in the Norrland region was asked to work without a headscarf. The woman was warned that otherwise she would be fired. As a result of the examination of the warning, it was determined that the …

Attackers throw stones at Turkish mosque in southern Sweden

A mosque in Sweden affiliated with Türkiye’s Presidency of Religious Affairs was pelted with stones in an attack on the place of worship, an official said on Friday. Mehmet Ozer, an official from the Jonkoping Mosque in southern Sweden, told Anadolu Agency that they noticed the attack when they went for Friday prayers. “The incident …

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