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If you happen to pass through Kalfalar village in western Turkey, say hello to the villager, 82-year-old Ibrahim Elaslan. For Elaslan really is the villager, not a villager—he is Kalfalar’s sole remaining inhabitant. Elaslan, reported Anadolu Agency on February 27, has been living alone in the village since his wife Naime passed away in 2022. Until then, for around 10 years, the Elaslan household made up the last remaining inhabitants of Kalfalar, in the Aegean province of Kutahya, with the village population having sharply declined largely following a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook the l…