>>212192074 (OP)Honestly it's almost as bad as it was in Serbia during sanctions in the 90s unironically because they're experiencing the same kind of hyperinflation. But there is one thing that surprised me, that a Turkish Facebook shitposter friend told me about: Wages are actually rising rapidly, in Euros, with hyperinflation. Everything is 10x more expensive, sure, but now you have cases where people are renting apartments in Instantbull for 1000 euro a month and salaries are somehow rising to match that despite the lira being more and more royally fucked each year. There's two different Turkish economies fundamentally, for people with access to euros and for the poor sods who have to pay in lira.
Same thing happened in the 90s here btw when my family was living in permanent vacation in Montenegro spending like a fifth of their income because we were gastarbeiters with access to deutschmarks and my dad was a small time smuggler too, they literally lived like kings being served in hotels and restaurants and could not find a way to spend even a third of what they earned even if they wasted money incredibly rashly like modern tiktok girls. Meanwhile the average Serb was waiting in bread lines, and one of my uncles spent his whole salary on a pljeskavica once lmao because in dinars it would be worthless by the evening. He worked a whole month, spent several hours waiting in a bread line each day, and spent the entire salary for that month on a burger immediately once he got it. One month he spent it on a dino toy for my cousin. So yeah, two separate economies for those who have access to foreign currencies and those who don't. That was Serbia in the 90s and that's Turkey now.