By Kubra Chohan
ANKARA (AA) - The ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party will unveil its manifesto on Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
“We will explain our manifesto soon, I hope that this manifesto will reveal the future of the presidential system[…],” Erdogan said at his party's provincial congress in Istanbul.
“After that, we will explain in Ankara what we have done and what we will do in our election declaration,” he added.
Erdogan has served as president since 2014 -- Turkey's first popularly elected president. Before that, he served as prime minister, from 2003 to 2014.
Should he win the June 24 election, Erdogan would be Turkey's first leader under the presidential system, doing away with the prime minister's post, among other changes.
The president also said at least 4,415 terrorists have been “neutralized" since the launch of Operation Olive Branch in Syria.
Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply that the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
On Jan. 20, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch to clear YPG/PKK-Daesh terrorists from Afrin, northwestern Syria.
According to the Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkey’s borders and the region as well as to protect Syrians from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists.
The operation is being carried out under the framework of Turkey's rights based on international law, UN Security Council resolutions, its self-defense rights under the UN charter, and respect for Syria's territorial integrity, it said.