Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech in the AKP group meeting the other day, be it allegations regarding foreign policy or the call for boycott of not purchasing some newspapers, requires a serious analysis in two separate stages. Let’s start with the first one.
The İhtiyar Şahap Mountain Range lies between Van and Tatvan. The main passage of the Kuskunkıran Mountain is at 2,250 meters. The road is busy with traffic. I observe many lorries carrying diesel oil. Every day lorries are on the road to get cheap fuel. The diesel oil from Iran is one-third cheaper than in Turkey. Everybody in the region uses Iranian oil. Unofficially every lorry has the right to fill their tanks once a day with Iranian oil. Every day the tanks grow larger, meaning people start buying lorries with larger tanks. One of the main businesses in the region is diesel oil distribution.