When asked in an interview what the phenomenal popularity of his Islamist Justice & Development Party (AKP) was based on, party chairman Tayyip Erdogan replied: “Hatred, rage and revenge.”
His answer did not need elaboration. Turks understand that he was referring to what many of their compatriots feel about a corrupt political establishment that has landed them with the worst economic crisis in Turkey’s post-war history. Last year’s massive devaluation lost a million people their jobs and 95% of the population has been impoverished by it.
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