Erdogan calls Turkish elections for May 14, three months after quake disaster

Ankara, March 10 (BNA): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially announced today, Friday, that the parliamentary and presidential elections will be held on May 14, a month before the earthquake that struck southern Turkey, which left only three months behind.

“Our nation will go to the polls to elect its president and parliamentarians on May 14,” Erdogan said in a televised address after signing the resolution, just over a month after earthquakes killed some 50,000 people in Turkey.

Erdogan said that the elections had been postponed because the date scheduled for June 18 is a date with university exams, summer vacation and travel to perform the Hajj.

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