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Poverty and a slump in support for his governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has prompted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan into a sharp change of direction on economic policy.
“People are at the point of explosion,” said Özgür Akbaş, the owner of a tobacco shop in a wealthy neighbourhood of Turkey’s capital Ankara, describing how two elderly women came into his shop last week. One asked to buy a single egg and the other wanted free bread, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
Turkey was already battered by a currency crisis that struck in 2018 and double-digit inflation when the coronavirus pandemic swept through the country in March. After a second wave in recent months, a significant portion of the population is overwhelmed with debt and increasingly going hungry, the New York Times’ Carlotta Gall said.