In normal times, almost 200 people would have attended the funeral for Ahmet Ucukcu’s 95-year-old father at an Istanbul cemetery. The coronavirus which took his life has changed all that. “Many of my relatives wouldn’t come except for close family members and his sons who were authorised to attend only,” Ucukcu told AFP. “We are just six or seven people.” The scaled-down ceremony took place at a cemetery in the city’s Beykoz district on the…
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