Video Commentary:  Turkey’s Annus Horribilis

Turkey’s Annus Horribilis

• When it rains, it pours. Turkey has been stung by a series of disasters this year, natural and man-made.

• Covid-19 waxed and waned through the year. Now, cases and deaths are rising again.

• A once-a-century drought is devastating farm communities and driving food inflation at a time when broad-based unemployment is 27%.

• Mucilage has sunk to the bottom of the Marmara Sea, still threatening marine life.

• Wildfires have sprung up in 15 provinces and at more than 180 locations. One is currently engulfing a coal-fired power plant, threatening the region with an unprecedented environmental disaster.

• While strangely these series of calamities don’t show in official economic data, public morale has sunk to the bottom.

• The common denominator of these horrible events? The Erdogan regime refuses to accept culpability.

• The next elections are scheduled for 2023, but the psychological shock of the Summer of disasters could precipitate a snap election to prepare for the 20-year Erdogan Era.

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