Turkey under lockdown: “Cats seem to be the new sultans of Istanbul”

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Le Figaro correspondent Delphine Minoui describes an eerie “end of the world” feel as the Covid-19 lockdown hushes the normal bustle of Turkey’s largest city Istanbul. Confinement in Istanbul is particularly unsettling at the outset of #Ramadan.

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