Erdogan gets his votes with investments that are visible to the voters, if he invests in industry nobody will see it but if he opens a bridge everybody says ''see he is doing something'' even thought that bridge will cost the state 8 times the price of the actual bridge thanks to the moronic build-operate-tranfer model.
This bridge is an exsample, the goverment didnt spend a single penny on its construction, a consotium of companies built it with their own money and got a guarantee of a certain amount of cars passing throught daily, if not then state pays the difference. Now the problem is the toll was set based on dollar but since it has risen it became ridiculously expensive meaning the bridge is basically empty and state is paying the company.
If you calculate the guarantee paid by state to the company in the 20 something years of operation we could have built
8 of such bridges, thats freaking ridiculous.
But whenever you talk to goverment supporters about this they say its a good investment and that we only oppose it because Erdogan did it.
And this is just one exsample how the ressources of the country are being depleted on show projects to please people who have zero idea about useful investments, many erdogan voters expect to become a superpower by putting concrete on random places, nobody actually questions how those a financed and what use they will give.
