1 in 7 households cannot pay the bills without help

CHP Vice President Ahmet Akın said: “With the destruction caused by the government, which says that we have come a long way in energy, 1 in 7 households in our country cannot pay their bills.”

GREAT DEPRESSION

In his statement, Akın noted that Turkey began to experience a major energy slump, especially after 2018. Noting that energy poverty is defined if more than 10 percent of household income is energy expenditure, Akın continued as follows manner:

“The government has been trying to hide the damage it has caused in energy, especially since 2018, with wrong policies and wrong elections, shortly before the elections. The government, which carried out the largest energy increases in the history of the Republic with 200% in electricity and 164% in natural gas in 2022, caused deep energy poverty in Turkey. Households in Türkiye now have difficulties accessing energy.”