crisis were brought on by his policy of slashing interest rates in the face of soaring inflation.
Erdogan retains strong support among rural and working-class conservatives and nationalists. He and his ruling coalition could yet prevail in the presidential and parliamentary votes, polls show. At the same time, Western easy-money dried up, sparking an exodus of funds from Turkey and curbing its cheap credit boom.
"The protests were both a response to and a further impetus for the increasing authoritarianism of the AKP government...and led Erdogan to wage an all-out war against his opponents using the entire government apparatus," said Ates Altinordu, assistant professor of sociology at Sabanci University.
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