Yes. He has polls done very frequently and is famous for saying/doing one thing today and exactly the opposite the next day. However all he cares about is staying in power. He will not reverse course in economy or anything else unless it effects his chances of getting reelected. His being a candidate in the next election is not even constitutionally allowed but we do not talk about these kinds of irrelevant details.

I doubt he's concerned with reelection. That part is assured already.

I agree this is not his main concern, but it's surprising how much dictators care about public opinion, and how much they pay attention to the press, education, and culture.

It's as if they knew their system was fragile, and they can't let any small thing fall out of place, otherwise an immediate danger would be posed.

Like I said. If the elections happen on time he cannot even be a presidential candidate. This is due to term limits in the constitution that he himself passed with a referendum. They'll probably argue semantics and claim he can be a candidate. They have never discussed this in public yet.

The other option is if the parliament decides to have early elections which requires opposition parties to vote in that direction too - which they might. The constitution allows him to be a candidate in this case. They might just do it. There are examples of them doing dumb things or maybe they are colluding with him. Who knows.

If he can't run, any other AKP candidate has basically zero chance of being elected.

He and central bank Gov. Sahap Kavcioglu believe this is the peak and inflation will begin declining to near 43 percent by the end of the year and single digits by end of 2024 “thanks to a gradual decrease in supply-demand mismatches and disruptions in supply chains, in addition to the results of the steps taken for price stability” (remarks from central bank governor last month).

Ergodan’s course is not changing, for now

Country that had high inflation forever blames Covid supply chain disruptions and "supply-demand mismatches". It doesn't help but it's not the problem either.

He's old, autocratic and in power, also hugely trying to appeal to the (rural) "believers" ...so I don't think so... I think you have to be a special kind of honest when being a believer to admit you may be wrong.... and besides power is hugely corrupting, maybe a lot of the problem is patriarchy... I mean women are so beautiful they represent a danger (vulnerability ) to the hold men in general have on power... Funny how many young expat Turkish men in Germany seem to admire him (sad too) but that's anecdotal

It seems no: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/01/27/....