Well everyone knows I'm the biggest hater of our government but fact is that Turkey was the first, or one of the first to take 'radical' measures and closing borders and cancelling flights with all big danger areas. Western Europe back then was saying it was a flu on tv (not anymore) and that masks have 0 work (because they were out of stock and not anymore again) The virus seems to outside from the far east and Iran have reached Western Europe particularly anyway (or the east lies completely which is not that far-fetched knowing them) and yet I still agree that they probably lie about the numbers. There are rumours that Turkey and Bulgaria report people with light symptoms simply as 'Flu' to make the number seem smaller, I believe this tbh.
You have to realize, the entire world is lying about the numbers atm, in the Netherlands our government is even open to the folk about the numbers being mainly wrong lol because they did not test any family members for example of infected people and it's almost a surely given that they are also infected. So 1 entire family, counts as 1 person.
This is so NOT true! Turkish airlines was one of the last airline that cancel their flights to Italy, same to İran as well. Indeed there were transportation between Iran-Turkey even after they claimed that they closed Iran border
Turkey didn't take any radical measure. They just lied about the real numbers and refused to test many suspicious case. Probably things start to get out of hands that's why finally they had to accept it now.