Copy LinkThe leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, who has refused to pay his electricity bills in protest of high household energy prices, said authorities cut off the power supply to his home on Thursday. Residential and business customers were hit with exorbitant utility bills after Turkish authorities sharply raised electricity tariffs on Jan. 1. The leader of the center-left Republican People’s Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, vowed earlier this year not to pay his electricity bills until the government withdrew the price increases. “Energy is a basic human right. Turkey’s annual inflation rate soared to a two-decade high of 61% in March, eating away at people’s savings and making it difficult to buy basics like food.

Source: Libya Today April 22, 2022 08:37 UTC