I will answer your questions correctly even though I've never been to Turkiye.
"Turkey’s GDP per capita stood at $3,641 in 2002, the year before Erdogan became prime minister, and reached $9,661 in 2021, according to the latest World Bank data" (
CNN Business)
Erdogan more than trippled Turkiye's GDP per capita during his rule. But today, the West tries to convince people that Erdogan's mismanagement of the economy is the cause of Turkiye's economic problems. How can people believe them, specially when there are clues of Western economic attack on Turkiye everywhere.
As for Erdogan's refugee policy, people support him out of compassion for the stranded MUSLIM refugees. We true Muslims are more intimately connected than our enemies think. You may call us Islamists or fundamentalists or even terrorists, but no toture or badmouthing will make us abandon our brothers and especially our leaders (Erdogan a good example). This is why the combined force of the Western media and opposition propaganda does not convince the Turkish conservative base. Islam and their leader is way more important than the economy.
No politician will succeed in a conservative Muslim community if he has Western support. We dislike almost everything the West stands for. We will never like or trust their governments - especially not after the 65+ million deaths and displacements they inflicted on the Muslim world since 9/11 (and these crimes will be paid for no matter how long it takes).
CHP's or KK's biggest mistake was getting the endorsement of the West at a time when anti-Western sentiments in the Muslim world is through the roofs. As long as conservative Muslims are a majority in Turkiye, secularists should forget about winning elections.
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