“My concern is for her mental health and her wellbeing and the fact we cannot go on and on here.”
A British man stranded in Turkey with his vulnerable wife has spoken of their deep distress and anxiety after flights home have been repeatedly cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis. He is urging the British government to rescue them.
“She’s got a breaking point, to be honest with you. The health services here are not good, I don’t even know if the hospital would treat us. My concern is for her mental health and her wellbeing and the fact we cannot go on and on here.” The couple are among tens of thousands of Britons still stranded overseas after many countries closed their borders in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Foreign secretaryDaniel Leal-olivas / Getty ImagesMottley said he had repeatedly spoken to the local consulate in Fethyie, the British embassy in Ankara and the Foreign Office about their plight. Turkey suspended all international scheduled flights on 27 March, until further notice.was to “return now by commercial means”.
An EasyJet spokesperson said: “Where we have been required to cancel flights as a result of travel restrictions, we have been committed to getting customers home as quickly as possible and so we have worked hard to operate a programme of over 650 rescue flights so far, bringing over 45,000 customers home since travel restrictions have been implemented.
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