People gather to perform first Eid al-Fitr prayer after 87 years within precautions against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on May 13, 2021. (Photo by Ahmet Bolat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A man buys food from a shop selling takeaway food after the start of a three week nationwide coronavirus lockdown on April 29, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Turkish government announced a new full three week lockdown between April 30 and May 17 in an attempt to slow the rising number of coronavirus infections across the country. Turkey has seen a rise in infections over the past month prompting the full lockdown. Since the start of the pandemic Turkey has recorded 4,751,026 cases of the virus and more than 39,000 deaths. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





A dog lays on a virtually empty Istiklal Street, in Istanbul, Friday, April 30, 2021, on the first day of a tight lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. Turkish security forces on Friday patrolled main streets and set up checkpoints at entry and exits points of cities, to enforce Turkey’s strictest COVID-19 lockdown to date. Still, many people were on the move as the government, desperate not to shut down the economy completely, kept some sectors exempt from the restrictions. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A worker prepares sweets on a pastry shop in Istiklal Street , the main shopping street of Istanbul, Friday, April 30, 2021, on the first day of a tight lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Police inspect passengers in vehicles on the July 15 Martyrs' Bridge, formerly known as the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Friday, April 30, 2021, on the first day of a tight lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A man walks on a virtually empty Istiklal Street, the main shopping street of Istanbul, with shops closed, Friday, April 30, 2021, on the first day of a tight lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Newly-married couple Yasemin Tuna and Murat Targut pose for their photographer as they walk in Istanbul's deserted Istiklal Street, the main shopping street of Istanbul, Thursday, April 29, 2021, after the start of the latest lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus. People stocked up on groceries, shoppers filled markets and many left cities for their hometowns as Turkey's strictest COVID-19 lockdown yet came into effect late Thursday. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





27-year-old taxi driver Omer Efe Tektas, wearing “Batman” costume, is seen in Mersin, Turkey on May 02, 2021. Tektas wanted to help his customers amid the novel type of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic process and he starts to deliver the grocery shopping of the senior people who cannot leave their homes during the pandemic also gives presents to children. (Photo by Sezgin Pancar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Turkey's only female aerobatic pilot Semin Ozturk Sener, 30, poses with her 8-month-old baby bay Pars sitting in his little toy plane and her husband Cem Sener, in Eskisehir, Turkey on May 06, 2021. Semin Ozturk Sener following in the footsteps of his father Ali Ismet Ozturk who was a professional aerobatic pilot, conducts her trainings at Sivrihisar International Sportive Aviation Center. She generally spends time at apron with her son and husband, Cem Sener, after her training flights. (Photo by Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A child holds a Palestinian flag during Friday prayers outside Fatih mosque in Istanbul, Friday, May 4, 202. People in Turkey have been demonstrating this week against Israel and in support of Palestinians, killed in the recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, without much interference from the police despite a strict lockdown to curb COVID-19 infections that have ordered people to stay home until May 17. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A drone photo shows an aerial view of nomads and their animal flock are on their way to cooler uplands during holy Islamic month of Ramadan at spring season in Bingol, Turkey on May 02, 2021. (Photo by Ridvan Korkulutas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Riot police officers detain demonstrators as they attempt to defy a ban and march on Taksim Square to celebrate May Day, during a nationwide “full closure” imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) contagion, in Istanbul, Turkey May 1, 2021. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





Turkish riot police officers scuffle with demonstrators as they attempt to defy a ban and march on Taksim Square to celebrate May Day, during a nationwide “full closure” imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus, in Istanbul, Turkey on May 1, 2021. (Photo by Kemal Aslan/Reuters)





A boy holds a candle as he attends an Easter Resurrection Service with limited attendance as part of measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey early May 2, 2021. (Photo by Erdem Sahin/Pool via Reuters)





People attend Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on May 13, 2021. (Photo by Kemal Aslan/Reuters)





People walk in Eminonu market, an area usually packed with shop goers, but currently nearly deserted due to the strict lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, in Istanbul, Saturday, May 8, 2021. The “full lockdown”, which began in late April and will last until May 17 came amid a huge surge in infections. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Backdropped by the historical Yeni Cami (New Mosque), a youth jumps from the Galata Bridge into the Golden Horn leading to the Bosphorus Strait separating Europe and Asia, in Istanbul, Friday, May 14, 2021.Turkey is in the final days of a full coronavirus lockdown and the government has ordered people to stay home and businesses to close amid a huge surge in new daily infections. But millions of workers are exempt and so are foreign tourists. Turkey is courting international tourists during an economic downturn and needs the foreign currencies that tourism brings to help the economy as the Turkish lira continues to sink. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A couple dance by the Golden Horn leading to the Bosphorus Strait separating Europe and Asia, in Istanbul, Friday, May 14, 2021. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Police Special Operation Team members are on guard at the hills of Amanos Mountains in Osmaniye, Turkey on April 28, 2021. Police officers of the Special Operations Branch of the Provincial Security Directorate, who are on duty in the dominant hills “Bayraktepe” and “Sancaktepe” in the Amanos Mountains, perform their duties in extreme conditions against terror organizations. (Photo by Eren Bozkurt/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Nomad Fatma Dilekmen, 23, is seen with her cave flock as she and nomads are on their way to cooler uplands to Konya and Karaman districts at spring season in Mersin, Turkey on May 04, 2021. (Photo by Sezgin Pancar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)