COVID-19 has been found in most of Turkey's eight neighbours – Iran, Azerbaijan, Greece, Iraq, Bulgaria, Armenia, and Georgia.Turkey implemented early precautions including thermal screening at airports, closing its border with Iran, and suspending air travel with virus epicentres China, South Korea and Italy.But the reported lack of the virus' spread in the country prior to Wednesday morning provoked suspicion among some on social media that the Turkish government had either supressed news of its spread or failed to adequately test suspected cases.