The virulent swine flu has killed 656 people across Turkey since October, a month after the country went on a nationwide vaccination campaign against the pandemic.
"A total of 656 people, confirmed by laboratories (to have been infected), have lost their lives as of July 29, 2010," the Turkish health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The report said the authorities had used about half of the 3 million doses of vaccine they had bought to fight the flu, defusing rumors that the supplies had not been applied.
The A/H1N1 virus raised alarms in November, when it claimed most of its victims among the 71-million Turks.
The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic on June 11, 2009, and says the disease has killed some 18,311 people worldwide.
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