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Nazlan Ertan

Dec 14, 2022

Mayor of Istanbul metropolitan municipality Ekrem Imamoglu speaks during an interview to AFP on April 2, 2020 in Istanbul, amid the spread of the epidemic COVID-19 coronavirus. - Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Thursday called for more robust action and a lockdown after Turkey's largest city reported the highest number of cases in the country. Without a strict lockdown, Imamoglu warned, even if 15 percent of the residents in Istanbul would move around rather than stay home, that would represen — Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu speaks during an interview to AFP on April 2, 2020, in Istanbul. — OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images

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