2023-05-07 21:25:46
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on April 27. MURAT CETINMUHURDAR/PPO/via REUTERS
DECRYPTION – The spectacular rise in prices does not seem to have melted the electoral base of the Head of State.
Ali Riza, 63, recognizes this without too much difficulty: at home, it is not he who does the shopping, even less the kitchen. But for some time now, this retiree has known the price of the groceries that his wife brings back from the market, and that’s what annoys him. “Thirty pounds (1,40 euro) the kilo of tomatoes! It was six times less five years ago!indignantly the Istanbulite, sitting in the cafe where he meets his friends to play okey, a variant of Rummikub. “And let’s not talk about the onions!”, continues Ali Riza, before talking about it at length. “30 pounds per kilo of onions! There are plenty of people in this country who can no longer eat healthily, and some have the audacity to call us “onion heads”!»
Ali Riza will not vote for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the presidential election on May 14. He never did, by the way,because Erdogan never pleased me, but that’s not the problem“. The problem, he continues,is that we have a president who claims there is no life crisis…
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