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Turkey's ruling party elites love to splurge while preaching frugality

Turkey's Justice and Development Party is preaching belt-tightening to a suffering public, but will party leaders' often profligate spending cancel out the economic — and political — message?

Turkish market
People shop at a local street market on March 22, 2021, in Istanbul, Turkey, on a day in which the Turkish lira plummeted as much as 15%. The lira has since fallen 3% more and was valued at 8.69 to the dollar on July 7, 2021. — Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images

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