The embassy cited data from Our World In Data, which shows that the seven-day rolling average for new cases in Turkey is 232.46, while in the UK it is 464.76.
The embassy also pointed to the EU's recent acceptance of COVID certificates issued in Turkey and the fact that a range of countries already allow quarantine-free travel from Turkey if travellers are fully vaccinated as further evidence as to why the country should be taken off the red list. NHS Test and Trace figures show 1.7% of people arriving into the UK from Turkey tested positive in the latest three-week period - this is the same as Spain, which is on the amber list.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerCases of"variants of concern" are also low - between zero and three.
Data expert Tim White, who tweets updates on daily figures around the world, says Turkey is a"borderline candidate" to turn amber.Grant Shapps outlines new travel quarantine rules