Fatah Axel is one of the thousands of Turks who travel from pharmacy to pharmacy in search of imported medicines that have disappeared following the rapidly depreciating value of the lira (Turkish currency).According to the French news agency AFP, Fateh has been suffering from Behset syndrome for the last nine years.
"Sometimes it happens that the medicine I need is not available and my illness gets worse," he said. I have to suffer. "
Turkey is currently facing a severe economic crisis, with the lira depreciating to record lows on Tuesday when President Erdoغانan said in a statement: There is no desire.
The current economic policies of the government are being blamed for the dramatic depreciation of the Turkish currency.
Turkish Health Minister Fakhruddin Koja has denied the allegations, saying "pharmaceutical companies want to sell expensive drugs to Turkey."
"There is no medicine in Turkey," he said. "These reports have nothing to do with reality."
The secretary general of the Turkish Medical Association says companies are being accused of selling expensive drugs at a time when the lira (Turkish currency) has lost so much value.
The Turkish Pharmacists Association said in November that 645 medicines had been affected, but that the situation had worsened and it was now difficult to find a thousand medicines.
