WSJ spoke to voters in Kayseri: ‘A fierce election’

As the world press closely follows the critical elections to be held in Turkey on May 14, many newspapers publish analyzes drawing attention to the fact that President Erdoğan lost power due to the economic crisis and the earthquake disaster.

The Wall Street Journal, one of the leading US publications, published an election analysis titled “Erdogan faces toughest election process due to economy”.

The daily, which takes the pulse of voters in Kayseri, one of the cities where the AKP is strong, noted that growing anger over Erdogan’s economic management and high inflation also affected the AKP base. Speaking to WSJ, who wrote that support for Erdogan is uncertain in Kayseri, where conservative voters are concentrated, Mustafa Seven, one of the AKP executives in the city, said: “This time, it is a fierce election. “I don’t think we’re going to lose, but we’re not that comfortable either,” he said.

‘VOTES ARE AWAY FROM AKP’

İbrahim Yılmaz, President of the Kayseri Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, said: “The economy is slowing down. Inflation is the most important factor. People have no money left in their pockets,” he said, adding that the crisis has driven voters away from the government.

Speaking to the USA newspaper, a Kayseri shopkeeper said he had previously voted for the AKP, but this time he would support the opposition because of the state of the economy, saying: “The government is painting a rosy picture, but the reality is different.”

The Wall Street Journal, drawing attention to the fact that Erdogan has increased his control over the economy in recent years, also commented that the successive decrease in interest rates led to the currency crisis and the rapid loss of dollars in the TL. In the news, which reported that industrialists and exporters suffered badly from the crisis, it was opined that the problems in the economy weakened the partisanship that had previously brought Erdogan to power.