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How much support does Erdogan still have ? How long do you think he'll keep getting away with his schemes ?
 
How much support does Erdogan still have ?
roughly half of the population loves him and other half hates him. Of course there are
people in between but they're minority country is polarized mostly.

How long do you think he'll keep getting away with his schemes ?
Unless something extraordinary happens, he'll stay in power in foreseeable future.
 
How are refugees/migrants changing life of normal Turkish people? What is general attitude to refugees/migrants?
 
How are refugees/migrants changing life of normal Turkish people?
for middle and high income people nothing much changed maybe exception of seeing much more beggars here and there. But for lower-income people -especially for unskilled workers- Syrian emmigrants mean more competition for jobs in much lower wages.

What is general attitude to refugees/migrants?

Mostly racism from almost all levels of society.
Erdogan and his party officially biggest supporters of Syrian Immigrants but most racism comes from their base mostly for the reasons i said before. Only few devout to party policy are supporting them openly.
More secular voters are mostly afraid that these syrians will become voters and support Erdogan. And sees them even more threat for secular lifestyle in Turkey.
Nationalists are against them because they're not Turks. And I heard from some that they see them as traitors -because they fleed their country instead of defending it- to their own country.
Kurdish - socialist coalition is officially thinks that we should help them all we can but due to increased attacks from state they don't/can't really pay attention to them.

PS: of course this is a huge generalisation. Like always there are good people from all political spectrum sympathetic to them
 
So its pretty similiar to attitude in the central european society. Except we have nearly zero refugees and experiences with them.
 
How much support does Erdogan still have ? How long do you think he'll keep getting away with his schemes ?

Unless something extraordinary happens, he'll stay in power in foreseeable future.

it will turn out to be a Presidency for life .

as for refugees ı would say Racism is some too harsh a word . An unease at all levels of society , but it might turn into actual hate as soon as an Irresuction campaign starts up in the refugee camps .
 
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