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Turkey: With Lettuce and Tomatoes in Parliament Deputies Protest Inflation-Record

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Holding lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and eggplants Opposition MPs appeared in the Turkish parliament as a sign of protest against the huge rise in prices of basic goods in the country.

As much as Recep Tayyip Erdogan promises that better … 2023his opposition MPs sharply criticize him, accusing him of “sleeping the people” and forcing him to need a tomato, a lettuce and a cucumber.

«You put the people to sleep with the stories of a people, a flag and a homeland and in 20 years you have made him need a tomato, a cucumber, a lettuce “, said Senta Kadigil, Member of Parliament for the Turkish Labor Party

“One eggplant, one costs 5.74 pounds. Before AKP “We bought 20 kilos of eggplants with the same money”, said Erkan Aydin
Member of Parliament Rep. People’s Party of Turkey.

His correspondent in Istanbul he also spoke of unimaginably high prices in the Turkish market. As he said, he went to buy sea bass in the supermarket and the kilo costs 250 pounds (15 euros), which as he commented “is an impractical amount when the basic salary is at 4,000 pounds”

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