Doctors in Turkey Launch 2-Day Strike

Doctors in Turkey began a two-day strike on Monday. The doctors are demanding better pay and pensions, and are calling for a law that protects health workers from violence from patients at work, The New Arab reported.

The strike was launched on Turkey’s national Medicine Day, observed on March 14.

Turkish Medical Association members and other doctors marched to Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Monday, but they were stopped by police, according to local media reports.

There has been a sharp rise in the number of Turkish doctors seeking employment abroad in recent years, according to the report.