Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor and presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is currently detained at Silivri Prison, criticized the government's performance over the last 10 years in a post on his social media account.
Here is the government's 10-year report card! You cannot govern… Get off the nation's back already! https://t.co/HKsj3LTCfn
— Presidential Candidate Office (@CA_iletisim) October 11, 2026
İmamoğlu's post included a table comparing Turkey's indicators for economy, rule of law, democracy, freedoms, and corruption between the 2015-2016 period and 2026.
The table stated that according to TurkStat (TÜİK) data, inflation rose from 8.81 percent to 30.89 percent. It was shared that in the World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index, Turkey fell from 80th place out of 102 countries to 118th place out of 143 countries.
The post also reported that Turkey's press freedom ranking dropped from 149th to 163rd out of 180 countries; Freedom House's political rights and civil liberties score declined from 53 to 32, and its internet freedom score fell from 61 to 31.
Under the heading of corruption, data from Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index in the Public Sector was also included. According to this, while Turkey's score dropped from 42 to 31, its ranking fell from 66th out of 168 countries to 124th out of 182 countries.
İmamoğlu captioned his post, "Here is the government's 10-year report card! You cannot govern... Get off the nation's back already!"
News Source: 12punto
