Turkey will impose a four-day partial curfew beginning Friday midnight before ending on the midnight of Tuesday, May 19, at the end of a day marked by a national holiday, President Erdoğan announced on Monday. “There will again be a lockdown in place on May 16-17-18 and 19,” Erdoğan said in an address to the nation following a weekly cabinet meeting, as Turkey has gradually launched its normalization program following the success of early measures against the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 19 is a public holiday in Turkey, so the government decided to extend the weekend curfew until Tuesday. He also announced the lifting of travel restrictions on nine more cities, including Adana, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Trabzon, Ordu, Denizli, K.Maraş, Şanlıurfa and Tekirdağ.
