Tayyip Erdoğan has secured the election!

Of course, this is not irony.

It is quite serious.

Özgür Özel is wearing himself out on the podiums saying "if there is no livelihood, there is an election",tearinghimselfapart, but unfortunately hissentences do not have much of aresponse on the ground.

We have seenmany times that elections can be woneven when there is noelection in the country.

Let's speakstraight from the heart.

There is no need to beat around the bush, but first, let's clearour minds properly.me. Because what is happeningis still being explained asan "economic mistake," "wrongpolicy," or "incompetence" by those trying to do so.

Absolutely not.

This is a choice!

Let us remember.

Hecame out and said, "Interest is the cause, inflation is theresult."

He said, "As a Muslim, I will do whatever the religiousdecrees require." He threw science, reason, the economy, the Central Bank, and the rules into the trash.I.

What was the result?

Foreign currency skyrocketed.

Inflation exploded.

The economy collapsed.

Tayyip Erdoğan has knowingly and intentionally impoverished the people of this country. Within afew years, heequalized the nation inpoverty.

Let us underline with a thick pen that the charity economy is the main fuel of this government. Let us draw this.

While on one hand deepening poverty,on the other, he meticulously constructed the perception that he is the only address for escaping this poverty. Thus, he both expanded his baseand became able to manage this base more cheaply, more easily, and more recklessly.

The minimumwage has become the average wageis in this state. Moreover, the determined figure isbelow the hunger threshold.

Today, if the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, we must emphasize once again that this is not a condition of the market, but a political choice of the government.is not a condition of the market, but a political choice of the government.

What we are experiencing is one of the most reckless capital transfers in history.

Whose pocket is it being taken from?

Of the people of my country.

Whose pocket is it going into?

The crony's, the contractor's, the nouveau riche, the greedy minority's.

Taxes, fees, you name it, we are up to our necks. The state seizes almost half of what we earn. But that money doesn't go to schools, nor to hospitals, nor to the future of thechildren...

It goes to the palace, it goes to concrete, it goes to cronies.

What about us?

Lastmonth, they raised the minimum wage by 27 percent.

For civil servant retirees, the18.6 percent.

Worker retirees 12.19 percent.

And they shamelessly say "we gave a raise"to us.

This is not a raise or anything. According to theinflationdoctored by TUIKaccording toasmallfraction.

According toENAG,annual inflation is56.14 percent. Inflation on the street is approaching 100 percent.is in a state. TTÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) seems to be living in another world. Those who calculate inflation there either don't go to the market, don't enter a grocery store, or don't pay bills.

The market isburning hot... TYou would have to be blind not tosee it.

The public has completelylost its perception of prices. People no longer know if something is expensive or cheap!

Pensioners are almosteating onemealfelldown. Even chicken is a luxury. There are so many retirees waiting for theevening hours to collect rotten fruits and vegetables at the market that...

Children are at risk ofstunting due to malnutrition.

Turning on the heater is a sign ofbecame an indicator of it.

But despite all of this,what is happening?

The ruling party's voteremains rock solid! It just won't drop below30percent.it.

Because Tayyip Erdoğan has worked on thismeticulously over theyears. First, heimpoverished the people, and then he made thismanageable. Then, just a few months before the election, he said, 'Look, I am giving this to you.'

In other words, as weoften call it, anelection economy.

Let's be honest and speak plainly; the election economy implemented according to the whims of the government in this country is nolonger just atemporarydeviation, but hashas emerged and become a permanent political practice under the AKP government.

These are notvague sentences.Let us flesh out the issuewith figures and dates.

For example, between2007 and 2015,in An implicit election economy is being carried out. Inflation was 6–9 percent, and the minimum wage increase was slightly above that.

Tayyip ErdoErdoğan was marketing "stability." He was able to win the 2007 and 2011elections without difficulty.

In 2015, the firstbreak occurred. The minimum wage was, for the first time,turned into a directvotepromise.it.

In 2018, the crisis was deliberately postponed until after the elections. In 2019, a compensatory raise came before the local elections.

In 2023, however, the mask completely felloff.

In 2023, however, the mask completely felloff.itwas. A 100 percent minimum wage increase compared to 2022was implemented with a pure, bare, shameless electioneconomy policy..

Let's not call this a welfare policy or anything of the sort; it isIt was an operation to save the ballot box. And that is exactly what happened.

In 2024, the brakes were applied. Because the risethere was no general election. Price hikes were deliberately keptlow. In other words, whatever was given to the public was taken back.

Letus formulate it this way:

As the election approachis inflated, salaries are inflated. Theelection ends, this inflationary bloat is taken back. Then the speeches about “patience,” “sacrifice,”and “tightening” begin.

Theresult?

Minimum wage increno longer serves as a social policy tool. Ithas ceased to be. Pension payments are by no meansa guarantee of livelihood.They are allammunition for votes for the government.Let us admit this:

Let us accept this:

This government is winning theelection by fixing the economy.It first ruins the economy, and then, through salary adjustmentsthat it presents as improvements, it effectively persuadesthe people of our country.As the election period approaches,When we enter the election period, he will apply the same strategy again, let no one have any doubts.

He knows well that the wider the gap between the raise he gave in December and the raise he will provide before the upcoming election,the more it will be reflectedin the ballot boxas morevotes.

In other words, the minimum wage andpension hikes were kept verylowintentionally. Talk of fighting inflationis just an excuse...

TheAs we head toward the election, let's say in the second half of thisyear or at the beginning of 2027, if he implements, for example, a40-50 percent rangeincrease in salaries, the disgruntledcitizens of our country who are prone toturning against the government, both pensioners and minimum wage earners, will once again return to Tayyip Erdoğan's side.will enter its orbit.

If today, to show sensitivity so that “our people do not live at the hunger threshold” and take a shad he given even more money, theeffect of the improvement he would make on the eve of theelection would have remained limited. Because he knows this very well,he has leftthe people of my country in poverty and evenhunger until a time he deemsappropriate.saw no harm in condemning topoverty.

Let's come to the opposition...

Unfortunately, the CHP has notfully grasped Tayyip Erdoğan's strategy. It tries to explain the issue in its own way through terms like "wrong economic policies,""poor management," and "meritocracy problems,"while tryingis shining.

However, what they are facing is not an economic program, but the government's political engineering.While Tayyip Erdoğan is managing poverty, the CHP is merely content withdescribing it.They are still

saying“the voter acts rationally”r”, “wallet”, “if the economy is bad, the government falls”, “an empty pot topples the government” in their naivety. However, elections are no longer about wallets ornot with [conviction], but with fear, habit, and the peddling of hope.

The ruling power is selling the perception that "If I leave, somethingworse will come."The opposition, meanwhile, cannot get beyond saying, "Don't worry, we are better." beyond that.

On one side, povertyis consciouslydeepenedand then a fewmonths of breathingroom, there is a government that makes people suffer. On the other side, there is an opposition saying "be patient," "tighten your belts a little more," and "we will fix it after theelection."They are trying to play by the rules of the game set by Tayyip Erdoğan.

Without breaking the game, withoutreshuffling the cards, and even without the table beingThey do not want to see that thiscannot be won withoutoverthrowing the entire system.

Therefore, yes; Tayyip Erdoğan has now condemned thenation tohunger, thereby securing the nextelection as well.However, it is not just his own cunning that has given him this guarantee. Let us conclude our article by stating that the incompetence, lack of vision, and cowardice of the opposition also bear the signature of this guarantee.