While the ever-increasing cost of living in recent years has reduced a plate from the table of the people, rent increases of up to 100 percent in recent months have become gangrene throughout the country, especially in metropolitan areas. With the start of education in universities, the problem continues to grow exponentially with the need for students' housing. After all these developments, firstly, journalists close to the government began to complain loudly about the prices on the shelves, and then President Erdoğan announced that he was complaining about "exorbitant prices". Erdogan also evaluated the constantly rising rents as “oppression” yesterday and announced that they will work to prevent it.
Date: 10 September 2021
“WE WILL PREVENT THE EXTRAORDINARY PRICES”
President Erdoğan made statements at the mass opening ceremony in Kahramanmaraş.
Erdogan, "We will stop the exorbitant prices on the shelves. Hopefully, we will prevent exorbitant price increases by bringing inflation under control as soon as possible. We will raise the welfare level of our nation to higher levels," he said.
Date: 19 September 2021
“If there is persecution and abuse, we will prevent it”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan went to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Making a press statement at Atatürk Airport before his departure to the USA, Erdoğan evaluated the exorbitant price increases in food prices and real estate prices during the registration period of students, upon a journalist's question, "If there is such an injustice, cruelty and abuse in our business, our minister friends, who are responsible for this, we will prevent this cruelty by following them closely," he said.