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Russians and Ukrainians fleeing the war and settling down in the southern province of Antalya have gravely impacted the commercial activities in the tourism hotspot, with especially local barbers complaining of growing competition between them and foreign barbers who charge six times the average fee.

About 23,000 hairdressers and barbershops are operating illegally in Greece, the president of an industry federation has claimed.

Maria Sotiropoulou, president of the hairdresser and barbershop owners federation, said the existence of unlicensed shops deprives the state of revenue and represents unfair competition for the industry.

Online transaction data has confirmed what opinion polls had found during the lockdown: What Greeks missed most while they were stuck at home was going to their hairdressers and barbers, as in the first three weeks of May they scrambled to get their locks back in shape.

More provinces in Turkey have joined other provinces in making it mandatory for people to wear face masks when they go outside.
The local health authorities in İzmir, the country's third largest city by population, and in the western province of Kocaeli have issued orders to this end.

Some 50 barbers have been put under quarantine in the Tavşanlı district of the western province of Kütahya after a doctor, who was part of the inspection team, tested positive for COVID-19.

Turkey on May 11 saw shopping malls, barber shops, and beauty salons open up under new social distancing restrictions as the first phase of easing measures, which were taken to control the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Barbershops across Turkey will reopen next week after a 50-day hiatus as part of the country's measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Earlier this week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan outlined the country's normalization schedule, saying it would go ahead step by step.

Seeing flames of fire on top of a client’s head is not a common scene in barbershops anywhere in the world, but it is now becoming more familiar and interesting at “Last Haircut” store in a neighborhood in Egypt’s Giza province near the capital Cairo.

As tensions mount worldwide over North Korean missile tests, one Serbian barber has decided to commemorate this uneasy period in global geopolitics with his unique form of artistic expression and social commentary.

The cause of the conflict that led to the shooting of a 29-year-old woman by a stray bullet remains unclear, according to police investigators, who say it may have been ethnically motivated.