13 Dec 2021

“Bread is an essential item in Turkish cuisine, and it's frequently consumed especially if you are a poor family. For a family of five or six people for instance, where parents and children and elderly live together, maybe at least two pieces of bread are eaten every day. So even if the Halk Ekmek bread is just a few liras cheaper, over a month that adds up to a substantial amount for a low-income family, and the price gap between that bread and what is in the markets is only going to widen as inflation goes up.”

www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/13/i...
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Berk Esen

   Professor, Analyst

IPC-Stiftung Mercator fellow at the Center for Applied Turkey Studies and an assistant professor at Sabancı University

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Turkey economy

Turkey economy - Subsidized bread to low-income citizens in Istanbul

Turkey high inflation

Turkey society