{"id":23005,"date":"2019-03-31T05:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T05:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-tourism.com\/Ar\/2019\/03\/31\/economy-security-under-spotlight-as-turks-set-for-local-polls\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T05:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T05:24:30","slug":"economy-security-under-spotlight-as-turks-set-for-local-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-tourism.com\/Ar\/2019\/03\/31\/economy-security-under-spotlight-as-turks-set-for-local-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy, security under spotlight as Turks set for local polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"217.466542172\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>Istanbul, Turkey &#8211;<\/strong> Millions of Turkish voters will on Sunday cast their ballots in critical local elections, after a heated campaign dominated by discussions over the country&#8217;s economy and security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The polls could pose a major challenge for Turkish President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/recep-tayyip-erdogan.html\">Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> and his Justice and Development (AK) Party given a backdrop of high inflation and rising unemployment sparked by a major currency crisis last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">According to Taha Akyol, a Turkish political analyst and columnist, the vote is the &#8220;hardest&#8221; faced by Erdogan&#8217;s party since coming to power in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The party is trying hard to stay away from discussing actual economic issues,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s economy has been hit hard since the lira lost as much as 40 percent of its value against the US dollar last year. The currency crisis, triggered in August after a bitter diplomatic spat with Washington, raised investor concerns over the independence of the Central Bank and highlighted wider worries over the performance of the economy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2019\/3\/28\/15c99cb317d549f6af1aec41dabd81aa_8.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"1.5\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2019\/3\/28\/15c99cb317d549f6af1aec41dabd81aa_8.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td class=\"caption\">The Turkish economy slipped into its first recession in a decade in the last two quarters of 2018\u00a0[Umut Uras\/Al Jazeera]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The polls take place just weeks after official statistics showed that in the last two quarters of 2018 the Turkish economy slipped into its first recession in a decade, as inflation and interest rates soared due to the currency meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>In February, inflation stood at just under 20 percent, while the Central Bank&#8217;s main interest rate is currently 24 percent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.50267379679\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As part of an initiative to tackle rising inflation, Turkey&#8217;s government set up these discounted food stalls. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5zAIy2LvGC\">pic.twitter.com\/5zAIy2LvGC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/status\/1111999017301540865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lira on Thursday resumed its slide following the return of liquidity at a key London exchange market after an earlier decision by authorities to hold it back, in a move aimed at keeping the plunging currency steady and thwarting short-sellers &#8211; traders who bet against the lira.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan has often blamed foreign powers and &#8220;speculators&#8221; for the currency fluctuations and other economic woes faced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/turkey.html\">Turkey<\/a> &#8211; a message he repeated this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attempts by a range of Western countries, most importantly the US, to put pressure on Ankara were behind the August 2018 manipulations in the Turkish currency market,&#8221; Erdogan told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must discipline the speculators in the market,&#8221; he said in another address.<\/p>\n<h2>Rival coalitions<\/h2>\n<p>With control of Turkey&#8217;s major cities up for grabs, Erdogan&#8217;s AK Party has entered the election race with its ally in the last two polls, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), under the People&#8217;s Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc&#8217;s biggest rival is the Nation&#8217;s Alliance, which was formed by the centre-left main opposition Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP) and the right-wing Good (IYI) Party.<\/p>\n<p>Both blocs have fielded dozens of joint candidates in the country&#8217;s provinces, districts and towns.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Kurdish People&#8217;s Democracy Party (HDP), the fifth party represented in parliament, has not put forward any mayoral candidates for Turkey&#8217;s six largest provinces, Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, Antalya and Adana, opting instead to back candidates running against Erdogan&#8217;s alliance.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, HDP has seen scores of its mayors removed and replaced with trustees due to &#8220;terror charges&#8221; under an emergency rule that was put in place after a failed coup in 2016. The emergency measure ended in July 2018.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Nationalistic rhetoric&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>In the lead-up to Sunday&#8217;s vote, the People&#8217;s Alliance has sought to link the local polls to internal and external risks threatening the country&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc&#8217;s leaders have accused the parties in the Nation Alliance of being in cooperation with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), which has fought the Turkish state for more than 30 years in demand of autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan himself has cited the fact that the pro-Kurdish HDP is not competing in major cities but supports his opponents as proof of that cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They do not talk about the dirty negotiations to carry the extensions of the PKK to municipalities through the candidate&#8217;s list [of the Nation Alliance],&#8221; Erdogan said in a recent rally.<\/p>\n<p>The government argues that the HDP has organic links to the PKK, a claim that has been denied by the political party.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the parties that make up the Nation Alliance have repeatedly dismissed the claims that they are cooperating with the HDP.<\/p>\n<p>Galip Dalay, a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, said that Erdogan&#8217;s bloc used &#8220;a high-pitch nationalist rhetoric&#8221; during the campaign, with state security at its heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They used the concept of terror and terrorism very generously in almost all policy areas &#8211; they link basic issues to terror and security,&#8221; Dalay, who is also a non-resident fellow at Brooking&#8217;s Institution in Doha, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bloc also linked the economic situation of Turkey and other problems the country is going through to conspiracies carried out by internal and external actors,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Opposition campaign<\/h2>\n<p>For its part, the main opposition alliance has focused its campaign on the economic situation and its effect on citizens.<\/p>\n<p>It also used Turkish flags in their campaigns, rather than party banners, in an apparent bid to attract voters from different backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused chronic economic mismanagement by the AK Party and Erdogan for the staggering unemployment, high costs of living and lira&#8217;s weakening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are serious problems. But they fail to explain how they will address these problems,&#8221; Kilicdaroglu told supporters earlier this week, arguing that the People&#8217;s Alliance was raising artificial security issues to distract voters from real problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How is the work of a mayor, or a municipal council member, related to state security or threats against Turkey?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dalay, the Nation Alliance has carried out a low-profile strategy, without promoting the political identities of the CHP and IYI Party &#8211; the parties comprising the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of putting forward identities of the two parties, they put the spotlight on their candidates and the problems average citizens go through because of the economic crisis,&#8221; Dalay said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They try to bring up actual problems Turkey is currently facing to attract such as inflation and unemployment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span> <strong><em>Follow Umut Uras on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Um_Uras\"><span>@Um_Uras<\/span> <\/a> <\/em> <\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Turkey &#8211; Millions of Turkish voters will on Sunday cast their ballots in critical local elections, after a heated campaign dominated by discussions over the country&#8217;s economy and security. 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