The president of the neighbor’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglousaid he made it known today that the electricity at his house has been cut, following his refusal to pay him account for two months, in protest of the sharp rise in energy prices.
In a video posted on Twitter, the leader of the largest opposition party in Turkey pointed out, inter alia, that “energy is a basic human right. I wanted to be the voice of those who can not pay».
According to APE BPE, citing Reuters and AFP, Kilicdaroglu said he would stop paying his electricity bill in February, when he asked to stop raising prices.
Today, he said, in addition to having his electricity cut off at his home in Ankara, that electricity prices have risen above 400% within three years.
The electricity has been cut to almost 3.5 million Turks citizens, he added.
It is recalled that last year the exchange rate crisis in Turkey caused the launch of inflation and led the government to raise prices everywhere, from gas and electricity to tolls, alcohol, bus tickets and petrol, in January.
Annual inflation rose further to 61% in March, according to the same sources.
It is worth noting that many analysts blame the country’s economic crisis on a series of unorthodox interest rate cuts decided by Tayyip Erdogan in 2021.
Source: News Beast
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