Turkey – Recent polls reveal shocking figures for Erdogan

A resounding loss for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), compared to the 2018 elections and previous opinion polls, the AKP’s share of the vote fell by more than 10 percent in Istanbul, Ankara, the city of western Bursa, the Kocaeli industrial center, and the Black Sea cities of Trabzon and Rize, reflecting both public anger and rejection of the current Turkish regime’s policies.

Erdogan shock

“He loses his popular support,” the Turkish website Ahval describes the AKP’s position, confirming that recent polls are shocking for Erdogan and his men, after the depreciation of the lira and the lax monetary policy led to a rise in the cost of living for the Turkish electorate. The annual inflation rate reached 79.6% last month, the highest in more than two decades, and the country is scheduled to hold presidential and parliamentary elections by June next year. The AKP’s voting share in Istanbul, the country’s largest city, fell by 12.5 percentage points to 30.2% compared to four years, according to an August poll conducted by the ORC Arashttskirma. He said that in Kocaeli, the industrial production center, the AKP’s support center fell by 13.33 percentage points to 13.3.3% in 20.3% The Center said: The losses in Trabzon and Rize – the AKP’s political strongholds – are more than 15 percentage points, with the Erdogan family descending from Rize and Erdogan’s AKP losing control of Istanbul and Ankara in local elections in 2019.