ISTANBUL'S Ottoman-era Yeni Moda Pharmacy is set to become a museum after 120 years of dispensing medicines.
The transition from active community pharmacy to museum follows the death of the store's owner and former President of the Istanbul Chamber of Pharmacists, Melih Ziya Sezer, at the age of 90.
Sezer had owned the pharmacy for more than 70 years, and had announced the closure of the store in Mar as he battled chronic health issues.
Following Sezer's death last week, his son, Marmara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Lecturer, Dr Ali Demir Sezer, confirmed the store would be turned into a museum to honour his father's legacy.
Local furniture maker Selahattin Yilmaz told the Daily Sabah, that the 90-year-old was not just a pharmacist, but "a real scientist".
"The medicine he made was usually 100% effective," he said.
"I think this place should be a museum, the disappearance of such an effort would be suicide."
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