YENİ Party attacks Turkey’s Medium-Term Program as a document to impoverish the public

Turkey’s new Medium-Term Program has drawn an immediate attack from the opposition after the government raised its year-end inflation forecast from 16% to 28.4%.

Deputy President Cevdet Yılmaz announced the program for 2027-2029 and said the government had made significant progress in fighting inflation. He said inflation, which reached 75.5% in May 2024, had entered a clear downward trend under the policies being implemented.

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We have made significant progress in the fight against inflation.

The program projects inflation will decline to 21% in 2027, 13.5% in 2028 and 9% in 2029. Those forecasts became the focus of criticism from Murat Emir, the YENİ Party’s parliamentary group deputy chair.

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The text you announced is not a Medium-Term Program, but a document from the presidential palace to crush workers and impoverish the public.

Emir said the announced text was not a medium-term program, but “a document from the presidential palace to crush workers and impoverish the public.” He accused the government of telling citizens to tighten their belts while refusing to give up extravagance, and said the government had shifted the cost of its policies onto workers while failing to meet its forecasts.

“You said the 2026 target was 16%, and it shot up to 28.4%,” Emir wrote on social media. He added that no forecast had held and no data had avoided collapse, warning the government would have to answer for what he called the resulting wreckage at the ballot box.

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You told citizens to tighten their belts while refusing to give up extravagance.