Turkish Analyst: 2022 was a nightmare.
Most Turkish analysts are summarizing and evaluating the events and developments of this year in their country. They believe that in 2022, Turkey will plunge into the deepest and most extensive economic crisis of the last 3 decades, and the outlook for the coming year does not seem very bright. Analysts believe that the election can change everything.
In his analytical column, Taha Ak Yul, a long-time Turkish lawyer and analyst, examined Turkey’s main problems in 2022 and called it a terrifying nightmare without compliments.
This Turkish journalist and historian has previously been one of Erdogan’s confidants and has interviewed him many times. But later he distanced himself from Erdogan and now his views are close to Gol, Babajan and Erdogan’s critics. Together, we read Taha Ak Yul’s analysis of Turkey’s 2022 nightmare.
We have reached the end of a year, 2022 passed like a nightmare for us. Economic problems, problems caused by Russia’s attack on Ukraine and several other issues made it a bad year for us. Now, in turn, I ask: Can we hope for 2023? Let’s hope, but try not to forget the facts and look realistically at the events of this year.
In this case, we can say that it is not possible to achieve a good year by continuing the policies that shrink the economy and make the law independent and impartial to protect the interests of the ruling party.
Now in Turkey, everything is affected by elections and party competition, and the ruling party spends money day and night to achieve victory. As if they have opened the water tap and don’t care to close it. Opening the taps all the way to achieve victory in the 2022 elections means that a significant part of this year’s problems will be transferred to 2023, and the country’s situation will worsen after that.
The current account deficit has broken the historical record with 100 billion dollars. Even the supplementary budget was not enough, just two days ago, a law was approved that the Ministry of Treasury can borrow another 200 billion liras!
The spiral of populism – crisis
Heaviing the burden of the country’s expenses in order to achieve an election victory in Turkey is a matter of precedent. The late Suleyman Demirel, one of the former presidents of Turkey, brought the possibility of retirement to the people at a young age in 1992 with strange promises and the sky of great strings. In every sense of the word, he opened the water taps and imposed a world of additional costs and burdens on the country.
