Ever since they lost the first Istanbul elections in March 2019 AKP haven’t done a single right move...AKP is in an absolute self destruction mode since then and Turkey is the hostage.
First they changed the Constitution in 2017 and put all the power in the hands of the President- thinking that by getting all the power they will be unstoppable... Only thing they achieved is that they ruined Turkey’s Institutions and the economy. They didn’t see that by getting all the power they get all the negatives when they fail too.
In June 2018 they won the Presidential Elections with 52% (even though the first big cracks in the economy started to open) and they were full with excitement, pride and arrogance.
After so many years in power Erdogan is getting tired and paranoid. During the years many of those who founded the AKP and helped it to achieve so many successes in the first 10 years in power just left the party for different reasons- either purged or resigned. What is left around Erdogan are either his closest relatives or the best asslickers and yes-men around... people who can’t give him constructive criticism, who can’t give him the right advice, who are afraid of him or just happy to be able to get some bone from the big table. And that’s when the personal fall begins.
Then came March 2019 and the Mayoral elections... AKPs number two guy Binali running for a Mayor of Istanbul- Turkey’s Alpha and Omega, THE CITY, The Golden Goose- the place Erdogan haven’t lost since he came into the spotlight... and they lost to a guy from CHP that we haven’t even heard about before that.
We will forever remember the whole fiasco- when they were recounting the votes for days and days, when they didn’t give Ekrem his mandate as a mayor, when they finally gave it and took it away deciding to make another Mayoral Elections in June. For these second elections AKP did everything to stop people from voting for Ekrem, turned their whole propaganda machine on and yet... this time they lost with 800 000 votes.
At that point whole of Turkey saw their true face and since then 2 years passed by and the economy keeps on getting worse and worse and worse while more and more people starting to turn their backs on AKP. And Erdogan and AKP officials know it too.