Turkey tightens controls in public places over COVID-19 threat

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Turkey stepped up controls Saturday on crowded public spaces including markets and ferries in Istanbul, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

Share this contentISTANBUL: Turkey stepped up controls Saturday on crowded public spaces including markets and ferries in Istanbul, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed the use of face masks to curb the coronavirus outbreak.

At a bazaar in the Besiktas neighbourhood of Istanbul, police and local municipal employees were handing out masks and hand sanitisers, and checking the temperature of customers as they entered."We are the latest compared to the rest of the world. Even this is not enough, there should be a complete lockdown," he told AFP.A 60-year-old customer, Asuman Karaman, who was wearing a mask, agreed.

"This has a big impact, there is no one at the market, at this time of the day, we have nothing to do here," said Abbas Kose, who sells vine leaves."But still, we have to take and give back change, and the microbes come from the money," Kose said.

 

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