His biggest mistake was allowing millions of refugees into the nation. If it weren't for this, the social, security and economic situation of the nation would've been significantly better today. Miles better.
The real question is, who advised him to keep the borders open? We de-mined our borders and essentially have an open border with Iraq, Iran and Syria to this day. That puny border wall isn't stopping anyone.
I hope that as you said, this election becomes a wake up call.
Who advised him? It wasn't anyone inside Türkiye, that I can tell you
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He got paid to de-mine the borders, he got paid to host millions of syrians, he got paid to open the borders of millions of pakistanis and afghans. As long as his and his families pockets were full he didn't care.
This country is wasting billions every year feeding and taking care of 8-10 millions illegals. A country of 80 million people is doing this, did anyone truly think the economy wasn't going to go to shits?
Pakistan got destabilized because they took in over a million afghans, a country with the population almost three times of Türkiye.
All these things are linked together, you won't start seeing improvements until the majority of illegals are deported back to their countries.
He also purged anyone competent inside the party pretty much, as much as I dislike anyone who belonged to this party in the past the majority of its senior members were actually educated, nowadays he is surrounded by online trolls who are after the money and don't care about the consequences.
Just look at the candidates he had to choose for the two biggest cities in the country. Tells enough doesn't it.
Even the current ministers are subpar.
And there is talk going around he will exchange his cabinet,
again, as if that will change anything.
Erdogan is not willing to tackle the issues of this country at their roots because he benefits from them. And because of that nothing will change.
