Poverty in Turkey is growing – minimum wage falls below “hunger threshold”. Official inflation is over 67 percent and the Turkish lira (TL) remains in free fall.
One US dollar now costs over 32 TL. Low-income earners in particular have it particularly difficult. Pensioners are particularly affected by poverty because many pensions are even below the minimum wage. This could become a problem for Erdogan and his AKP party in the upcoming local elections on Sunday (peer)