He alluded to it in his speech on Saturday Recep Tayyip Erdogan The Turkish president will run for his country’s presidency for the last time in the 2023 national elections, reports Euronews. According to the report, the head of state said that he hopes that next year they will head towards building the century that awaits them with such force that they will receive support for the last time, after which “we will hand over a sacred flag to our youth.”
The article notes that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2003 and wants to stay that way, but the past year has dealt strong blows to Turkey and the popularity of the Justice and Development Party has declined. Erdogan was Prime Minister of Turkey between 2003 and 2014, and President of the country since August 28, 2014. He will turn sixty-nine in February 2023.
Euronews states that the standard of living of many citizens has fallen due to inflation, which has repeatedly set new records, and the collapse of the Turkish lira in recent years. In October, according to a report by the Turkish Statistical Office, inflation rose to a 24-year high of 85.51 percent, but according to some, the real rate could be higher.
At the same time, Erdogan talks about how in the past 20 years, centuries-old problems have been solved, and a service infrastructure has been created that even developed countries would envy.
