Professor Ata Nevzat Yalcin from Akdeniz University's Faculty of Medicine, Infection Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, warned against the latest trend of increasing measles in Turkey.

"The worldwide increase in the disease in 2017 was also observed in our country," he said.

There were 572 measles cases in 2017, 342 in 2017, nine cases in 2016, 69 cases in 2017. In the first nine months of 2018, the number of the cases exceeded 500, he added.

Measles arise especially in the spring and winter months, and can cause recurrent epidemics every two to three years, Yalcin said.

According to the Health Ministry's figures, measles vaccination rate was 97 percent in 2017, 98 percent in 2016, and 96 percent in 2017.

Turkey faced measles outbreak, which was off the grid for many years, compounded by the arrival of millions of refugees after civil war erupted in neighboring Syria.

Some 7,415 people were diagnosed with measles in Turkey in 2013 but the epidemic was prevented after intense vaccination program.

The number of people diagnosed with measles disease reached 510 in the first nine months of 2018 in Turkey, a recent report of the WHO said.

According to the WHO, the number of global measles cases doubled to 229,068 in 2018, and 82,596 of them were in Europe, mostly caused by stalled vaccination levels.

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