Funeral director Erkin Guney is seen during an interview with a journalist at the Shacklewell Lane Mosque in London, Britain, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, April 27, 2020. Picture taken April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
LONDON (Reuters) – In Britain’s Turkish-Cypriot community, early April was a period of anxious waiting. With a strong presence in Enfield, people of Turkish origin number around 500,000 in the UK, and, like many minorities, feel they have suffered disproportionately from the COVID-19 pandemic.
There is no data yet on the full extent of deaths in the community or to show if the death rate is higher than for other UK citizens. According to Ipek Ozerim, a community activist and journalist, the number of fatalities of Turkish origin is at least 137. That compares to 87 deaths among those of Turkish origin in Germany, which has a community of over 4 million.
No one is quite sure why the virus spread within