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> But, there is a lot of corruption and there's about ~30% of the population which is exteremely uneducated and/or under Stockholm Syndrome and still supporting him.

Sorry, while I'm far (very far) from being a fan of Erdogan. I take a distance quickly when I read someone talking like this about their own people. From experience (from another 3rd world country) we have people that say the exact same words, and they're the most ignorant people on the local politics but they think they are superior and they know better because they are "liberal" and they follow the foreign (usually western) press but they keep loosing most of their political fights because they only see from very narrow angle. I'm not implying you're like that, I just want to say that this is dangerous way of thinking on the local politics of most countries.

You might be right on your specific case, I can't speak of your condition.

But if you were here and see the big picture and how gullible his supporters are you'd probably be at my side.

The opposition (CHP) is liberal yet is definitely very powerless and bad at politics, but I vote for it because that's the only party that is a threat to Erdoğan's party (AKP).

In short, I position myself as liberal and agree with the fact that liberals are sometimes lost in their own echo chamber of feeling superior, yet I don't vote for the liberalist party because that I'm liberal. I vote for it because that's the only possible opposition that can win majority against Erdoğan's party.

If there was a conservative party that would threat the current regime, I'd vote that even as a liberal. There is one (İYİ Party) but their votes are far too low currently to be a threat against AKP.

Is the 73% inflation number true? Experts say it is more like 156%.

"The Inflation Research Group (ENAG), an independent group of academics and economists working on key data that map economic performance, however, on Thursday said the country’s month-on-month consumer prices rose 8.68 percent, while annual inflation jumped to 156.86 percent in April."

https://turkishminute.com/2022/05/05/inflation-soars-to-near...

That's the official number, which is well below the truth.

I'd say the reality is around 100%.

But with global gas prices also increasing the cost of transportation almost quadrupled in a year.

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