President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that Turkey will continue to remain cautious with its COVID-19 measures until the end of May but start easing restrictions from June onwards in a controlled manner.

Axar.az reports that in a virtual meeting with officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Friday, the president said that the details of the controlled normalization process would be revealed on Monday following the end of the 17-day total lockdown.

The lockdown began on April 29 and will last until May 17 to cover this week's Eid al-Fitr, or Ramadan Bayram, holidays.