Turkish citizens heads to the polls on June 24 to elect the president and members of parliament. A new system for Turkish politics, an executive presidency, will also come into effect with #TurkeyElections.
Speaking to a Turkish TV channel at Istanbul’s new airport, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the number of ministries would be reduced to 16 under new presidential system after June 24.
“We will reduce the number of ministries to 16 under the presidential system,” he said.
Currently, Turkey has 21 ministries.
Under the proposed changes, the ministry for foreign affairs and ministry for European Union affairs would be merged. And the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs would be under the ministry of agriculture.
“Economic administration will be simplified,” said Erdogan.
“We will reduce the number of related ministries, which is six now, to three.”
The main opposition party’s presidential candidate Muharrem Ince held a big rally in the coastal province of Izmir on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of people attended the rally in the secularist Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) stronghold.
Ince said he would remove the state of emergency and send four million Syrians back to their country with a farewell ceremony, if he won the upcoming election.
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