Turkey to implement daylight saving time year-round

ANKARA

Turkey will continue to implement daylight saving time throughout the entire year.

According to a cabinet decision, published in the official gazette on Thursday, daylight saving time will be used every year and winter time will not be implemented.

Turkey moved to daylight saving time on March 27, 2016, at 3.00 a.m. local time (0100GMT) as clocks wind forward one hour.

Daylight saving time was going to end on Oct. 30, 2016. Clocks across the country would have been turned back one hour at 4:00 a.m. local time (0200GMT).