Turkey s Supreme Electoral Council has not received any requests for the postponement of the next general elections due to the recent earthquakes, Mehmet Yakupoglu, a representative of the opposition Republican People s Party in the council, told Sputnik.
The impact of the potential earthquake in Istanbul forecast by some seismologists would overshadow the recent earthquakes in the country s southeast in terms of destruction and social-economic damage, Turkish newspaper reported on Friday, citing experts.