Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that Turkey’s presidential and legislative elections will take place on May 14 as planned, despite the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. May 14″. postponement of the elections, during which he announced that he would run again, despite the situation in the affected areas.
More than 45,000 people were killed in the February 6 earthquake in 11 provinces in southern and southeastern Turkey, with the death toll exceeding 50,000, including those killed in Syria.
On Monday, the Turkish President apologized for the delay seen in the days following the earthquake in organizing relief operations as distress signals blared from the rubble, and on Wednesday he again saw before parliamentarians from his Justice and Development Party that the Operations relief efforts were delayed for several days “due to chaos and weather.”
