“God willing, we will review the state of emergency after the elections and we may lift it. We will work on it after we form a cabinet. The issue will not linger on for very long. We will take a step and move on,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had said on June 8, reported Hurriyet Daily.
After Erdoğan’s election victory, Bozdağ said during a live television program on June 25 that the issue would soon be evaluated by the government.
“We have given a promise before the elections. The state of emergency will expire on July 19. When it expires we will make the final decision. Our will is very clear and it for the lifting of the state of emergency. But the timing has not been decided yet,” Bozdağ said.
The Turkish Parliament on April 18 extended the ongoing state of emergency for the seventh time for another three months.
meanwhile, a deputy chair of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on June 26 said the ongoing state of emergency in Turkey should continue, contradicting the pledges of the MHP’s election ally, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
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