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| Turkey to stay on summer time all year round | |
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| Turkey will stop turning back its clocks this winter, staying on summer time all year round to make better use of daylight. | Turkey will stop turning back its clocks this winter, staying on summer time all year round to make better use of daylight. |
| The clocks in Turkey went forward one hour on 27 March for summer, in line with the rest of Europe. | The clocks in Turkey went forward one hour on 27 March for summer, in line with the rest of Europe. |
| But this setting will now remain in place throughout the year across the country, according to a decree adopted at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. | But this setting will now remain in place throughout the year across the country, according to a decree adopted at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. |
| The clocks were to have gone back one hour on 30 October when Turkish summertime officially ends. | The clocks were to have gone back one hour on 30 October when Turkish summertime officially ends. |
| But after the decree, published on Thursday, there will be no winter adjustment. | But after the decree, published on Thursday, there will be no winter adjustment. |
| The decree, which comes into force immediately, said the decision was aimed at “making more use of daylight” during the winter. | The decree, which comes into force immediately, said the decision was aimed at “making more use of daylight” during the winter. |
| The decision means Turkey will be three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in winter as well as summer and two hours ahead of continental Europe in winter. | The decision means Turkey will be three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in winter as well as summer and two hours ahead of continental Europe in winter. |
| “I abolished the winter-summer time difference,” the prime minister, Binali Yıldırım, said in a speech to provincial governors. | “I abolished the winter-summer time difference,” the prime minister, Binali Yıldırım, said in a speech to provincial governors. |
| “There will be no confusion now. The hours will be the same in winter and summer. You will change, not the hours.” | “There will be no confusion now. The hours will be the same in winter and summer. You will change, not the hours.” |