How the pandemic made the flower business wilt across the world

Despite enormous pressure under the pandemic, 36-year-old Celik continues to open his shop, unlike many others. He has applied for a government loan programme, which has been introduced by Ankara to reduce losses of small-scale business owners like him.

She could not buy flowers directly from places like Yalova, a beautiful city in the Marmara region across Istanbul, which is one of the major flower distributors alongside Adana, Antalya and Mersin, all Mediterranean coastal cities located in southern Turkey. “In the last 45 days, most of the florists in Istanbul were not open. I just try to be self-sufficient by keeping my shop open. But I also stopped making any payments to my debtors,” Celik says.

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