Soaring prices have eroded the middle class, damaging Mr Erdogan’s popularity. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ISTANBUL - Just months before pivotal elections that could reshape Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy, the government is spending billions of dollars in state funds to bolster President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing party at the ballot box, while unleashing an array of legal threats to weaken those who seek to unseat him.
His critics counter that he has used his many years as Turkey’s top politician to concentrate power in his own hands and is now using it to shape the outcome of the election before voters even go to the polls. Adding symbolism to the vote is timing. Mr Erdogan has said it would be held on May 14, months before the 100th anniversary of the foundation of modern Turkey after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Mr Erdogan has said that if he wins, it would vindicate his efforts to build Turkey’s economy, increase its influence abroad and protect the country from domestic and international threats. Mr Erdogan has been Turkey’s paramount politician for two decades, as prime minister from 2003 to 2014 and as president since then.
He has also taken charge of foreign and fiscal policy, sidelining the Foreign Ministry and the central bank.
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