Turkish President Erdogan faces big threats to his premiership. A languishing economy, earthquake-ravaged regions and a backlash against millions of Syrian refugees are among the issues that could end with his ouster.
And like many of his compatriots, he doubts whether his country’s leader,Erdogan, whose grip on power long looked unassailable as he flexed the country’s muscles within Turkey and beyond its borders, now faces the biggest threat to his premiership. A languishing economy, earthquake-ravaged regions and a backlash against millions of Syrian refugees are among the issues that could end with his ouster.
Demir, a shopkeeper, said that he lost hope in the state after he had to retrieve his wife’s body on his own from the rubble of the five-story apartment building, 48 hours after the quakes struck. “I feel offended at the government because they couldn’t efficiently intervene in the aftermath of the earthquake,” said Beran, 40, a furniture maker who is now living with his wife Sevsem and two childrenHe also said that he felt offended by the opposition who “didn’t really do anything except making propaganda against the government.”Neyran Elden / NBC News
Once welcomed as they fled their country’s civil war — now in its 12th year — calls for the Syrian refugees to return home have been revived amid a shortage of housing and shelters following the earthquake. “My Turkish neighbor told me that I had to pack my bags and prepare myself to leave if Erdogan loses the election,” Muhammad, 51, said Thursday at the barbershop he founded in the southern city of Mersin.
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