Corona, Cats and Ramadan in Istanbul

11/06/2020 23 min Episodio 2
Corona, Cats and Ramadan in Istanbul

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Episode Synopsis

Jan finds out what it's like to be locked down during the Covid-19 pandemic in Istanbul  with TRT producer and journalist Sitara Jabeen.  How do you make TV reports when you can't leave home? What was it like living through Ramadan, that most sociable of months, in solitary confinement? And what's happened to the hundreds of cats that roam Istanbul's back streets, now that the restaurants and markets that normally feed them are closed by the coronavirus?