Ankara-Sana
Today, the Turkish security forces arrested dozens of people who participated in a large demonstration in Istanbul on the occasion of the International Labor Day, in protest against the economic policies that led to inflation and the devaluation of the Turkish lira to record levels.
Reuters reported that the security forces of the Turkish regime "besieged dozens of demonstrators and used violence to disperse them and handcuffed them as they tried to reach Taksim Square in central Istanbul to celebrate May Day, and arrested 30 people in Besiktas and 22 others in Sisli."
In a statement, the Istanbul governor's office acknowledged the arrest of 164 protesters across the city.
The annual inflation rate in Turkey is expected to rise to 68 percent, affected by the Ukrainian crisis and higher commodity prices, according to a Reuters poll.
The Turkish economy suffers from a continuous deterioration with the reluctance of investors to work in Turkey amid the intervention of the President of the Turkish regime, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in economic policies and the tightening of his grip on the various institutions of the country and forcing the Central Bank to raise interest rates more than once, which led to the deterioration of the Turkish currency to record levels.
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