A Turkish woman poses for photographs on Taksim Square during the new year's celebrations in Istanbul on December 31, 2020. Turkish government announced a four-days lockdown between December 31 and January 04, 2021. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP Photo)





Men play baseball with their own rules called in the snow covered area in Gevas disrtict of Van province, Turkey on January 23, 2021. The game called “topa garane” wich is played in two sets of 6 players in a snow-covered area, with a stick and a ball made of horsehair, is one of the favorite games of the local people. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A fisher pulls a sledge as he goes eskimo-style fishing at the Lake Cildir during winter in Kars, Turkey on December 30, 2020. (Photo by Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





In this photo provided by Turkey's Health Ministry, a vaccination team member administers a dose of the CoronaVac vaccine, produced by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd., to Sati Kayiran, 88, in Ayas, in Ankara province, Turkey, Thursday, January 21, 2021. Turkey on Thursday expanded its COVID-19 inoculation campaign to include people aged 85 and older. (Photo by Turkish Health Ministry via AP Photo)





A rainbow is seen after rain in Palu district of Elazig, Turkey on January 14, 2021. (Photo by Enver Hanc/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Police in riot gear clash with students of Bogazici University, in Istanbul, Monday, January 4, 2021. Turkish police on Monday clashed with hundreds of students protesting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's appointment of a figure with ties to his ruling party as rector to one of Turkey's most prestigious universities. (Photo by Zeynep Kuray/AP Photo)





A drone photo shows flamingos on Akyatan Lagoon in Adana, Turkey on January 07, 2021. (Photo by Eren Bozkurt/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A sculpture of Munir Nurettin Selcuk wears maks as Kalamis and its surroundings remain empty after a general curfew imposed weekend-long from Friday 9 p.m. to Monday 5 a.m. local time within new measures against a second wave of the (coronavirus) COVID-19 pandemic, in Istanbul, Turkey on January 9, 2021. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Members of filiation teams are seen going to rural areas in Turkey's Diyarbakir province, on January 03, 2021. The filiation teams working to identify novel coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and contacts, work at rural neighborhoods for each case. (Photo by Bestami Bodruk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A snowman, featuring a mask, is seen in Istanbul, Monday, January 18, 2021. Snow blanketed most of the Turkish metropolis of some 16 million that spans two continents, bridging Europe to Asia and the flurries are forecasted to continue throughout the day. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A drone photo shows an aerial view of solar panels at a solar energy power plant (GES) in Edremit district of Van, Turkey on January 6, 2021. Van becomes one of the major markets of the country in electric generation from the sun with 37 megawatts of total capacity solar energy power plant to supply power to 80 thousand households. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Van cats, relatively large, have a chalky white coat, sometimes with ruddy coloration on the head and hindquarters, and have blue or amber eyes or have heterochromia, are seen at “Cat Villa”, established to protect the cats in Van, Turkey on January 20, 2021. Internationally valid “health certificate” is prepared for Van cats, visited by local and foreign tourists, within a project to protect their generations and increasing their numbers. Health certificates with information such as name, breed, gender, eye color, date of birth, tail feature, color, hearing status and identity are given to people who want to adopt cats. (Photo by Mesut Varol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A red fox is seen while hunting on snow during winter in Selim district of Kars, Turkey on January 02, 2021. (Photo by Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A dressed 2 month-old Pinscher “Sans” of Bahadir Avci is seen due to cold weather in Antalya, Turkey on January 13, 2021. (Photo by Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A photo shows burial process of coronavirus (Covid-19) victims in Ankara, Turkey on December 25, 2020. Washing, shrouding, funeral prayers and burials of people who lost their lives due to the coronavirus are carried out within the measures taken by the cemetery staff in Ankara. Ankara Metropolitan Municipality established private gasilhanes and burial areas. In Covid-19 gasilhanes, which are disinfected daily, corpses washed by male and female gassals using gloves, medical masks and overalls are buried in pre-determined areas with a coffin or a body bag after they are shrouded. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Horse-drawn sleigh tours on ice covered layer of the Lake Cildir in Ardahan, Turkey on January 06, 2020. Lake Cildir, located in Kars-Ardahan border, is the second largest lake in the Eastern Anatolia Region with an area of 123 square kilometers. (Photo by Gunay Nuh/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A Fatih Municipality worker in a protective suit disinfects the Ottoman-era Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on December 30, 2020. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)





A musician performs at the Camondo Stairs amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey on January 12, 2021. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)





A young man slides on a snow covered street in the Balat District of Istanbul on January 18, 2021. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP Photo)