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− | <br>By Dilara Senkaya and Canan Sevgili<br> <br>ISTANBUL, Oct 22 (Reuters) - As surging inflation pushes up the cost of living in Turkey, law student Candeniz Aksu says he hasn't been able to afford his housing rent for the past two months.<br> <br>"The natural gas has been cut off and they'll take the meter away in a couple of days because we have large debts," said Aksu, 23, who is studying at the University of Kocaeli and lives in Istanbul with another student.<br> <br>With higher-education students in Turkey returning to regular studies after a long period of distance learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, many are increasingly dependent on support from parents and income from part-time jobs to get by.<br> | + | <br>By Dilara Senkaya and Canan Sevgili<br> <br>ISTANBUL, Oct 22 (Reuters) - As surging inflation pushes up the cost of living in Turkey, law student Candeniz Aksu says he hasn't been able to afford his housing rent for the past two months.<br> <br>"The natural gas has been cut off and they'll take the meter away in a couple of days because we have large debts," said Aksu, 23, who is studying at the University of Kocaeli and lives in Istanbul with another student.<br> <br>With higher-education students in Turkey returning to regular studies after a long period of distance learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, many are increasingly dependent on support from parents and income from part-time jobs to get by.<br> <br>Their struggles are part of a broader erosion of living standards driven by inflation and high unemployment which has sharply cut support for President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party ahead of elections set for 2023.<br> <br>Economists say interest rate cuts which Erdogan pushed for to stimulate the economy - notably a surprise 200 point cut on Thursday which sent the lira to a new record low - will stoke inflation already near 20% and [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/vn/ Lawyer Turkey istanbul] istanbul exacerbate the students' difficulties.<br> <br>"The current government is entirely responsible for the increased rents and they still insist that there is no problem," said Enes, a student in the journalism department at Ege University in western Turkey's Izmir province.<br> <br>"Private dormitories are raising their prices. In short, a university student needs to work in order to live," he said.<br> <br>Housing inflation was 21% annually in September, according to official data, driven in part by rental prices as students returned to fully opened schools after pandemic closures.<br><br>The residential property price index was up an annual 33. If you loved this report and you would like to [https://www.biblebb.com/files/KSS/kss-jezebel.htm acquire] a lot more facts relating to [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/be/ Lawyer in istanbul] kindly take a look at the web page. 4% nominally in August.<br> <br>Students in Istanbul and elsewhere have staged protests at the rent hikes, symbolically sleeping in parks to highlight their plight.<br> <br>At first, Erdogan pledged to end any wrongdoing and said his government had done more than its predecessors to increase student housing.<br> <br>However, he took a harsher stance at the end of last month, likening the protests to 2013 demonstrations which began in Istanbul's Gezi Park before spreading nationwide in a challenge to his rule.<br> <br>"These so-called students are exactly the same as the Gezi Park incident, just another version of that," he said, adding that [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/gr/ Turkey Law Firm] had the highest dormitory capacity for higher education students globally.<br> <br>Muhammed Karadas, a Turkish language teaching student at 9 Eylul University in Izmir said he was staying at a friend's house because rents were too expensive and [https://4k-download.com/2023/01/15/18615/ Law Firm istanbul] he was 3,247th in line on the list for a place at a state dormitory.<br> <br>Students would now need to spend the equivalent of a family's income to sustain their university life, he said.<br> <br>Those hardships are compounded by concerns over high unemployment, now running at 12.1%, said Derya Emrem, a fourth year student in the radio, TV and cinema department of Ege University.<br> <br>"When I graduate this year, I will be both unemployed and in debt. I do not want such a life, there are thousands people who do not want such a life," she said.<br><br>(Writing by Daren Butler Editing by Dominic Evans and Susan Fenton)<br> |