Whoever puts his hand in the corridor where Erdogan poses is on fire

AKP Chairman and Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shopped at the Agricultural Credit Cooperative sales store located near his home in Istanbul Kısıklı on October 3, 2021.

Accompanied by his wife Emine Erdoğan, his daughter Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar and his granddaughter Canan Aybüke, Erdoğan filled two shopping carts with items such as chips, dried fruits, cookies, wafers and fruit juice while shopping.

Paying a total of 1,002 lira, Erdogan said in a statement after the market: “As you can see from our Agricultural Credit Unions, the market here is really very affordable in terms of various products, quality and prices. It really is a place where affordable prices are applied to the pocket of our citizens, ”he said.

SÖZCÜ focused on price activity for these products over the past 18 months, based on a photograph taken in front of the aisle containing cookies, waffles and crackers during grocery shopping.

The results of the new economic policy, which caused the Turkish lira to see record lows, are also to be seen in the aisle Erdogan is looking at.

While the Central Bank started cutting interest rates on October 21, 2021, AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Turkey had moved to the ‘new economic model’ in a TV show he attended. on November 30, 2021.

President Erdoğan said: “With the new economic model, we are pushing back the policy of taking out speculative money by paying high interest rates. We will support production and exports with low interest rates,” he said.

However, with the implementation of the program, all the balances of the economy were overturned. While the inflationary monster grew day by day, complaints about the cost of living from citizens also increased, who were overwhelmed by the increase in basic food, water, natural gas, electricity and fuel oil. Erdogan’s response to this situation was “Inflation is not an insurmountable economic danger. I was an economist.

Here is the change in the past 18 months in the price of snacks in the aisle of the Tarım Kredi market, where Erdoğan posed in October 2021: