A new opinion poll conducted in Turkey found that the opposition to President Reccep Tayyib Erdogan has mounted as 59.9% spelled voiced their discontent about his regime.
The poll, which was conducted in favor of ' Cumhuriyet ' newspaper showed that almost 45% of those asked, rejected Erdogan as a leader for Justice and Development Party.
According to the poll conducted by Turkish 'Eurasia Public Opinion Research Centre (AKAM)' revealed that 72.3% of the participants expected an early elections to be organized next year.
On another hand, Erdogan's recent decision to re-convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque will likely have a negligible affect on voting intentions, according to the poll.
When asked about the general performance of Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, 41.9 percent of people said it had been unsuccessful, 30.3 percent said it had been successful, and 27.8 percent deemed it neither successful nor unsuccessful.
Those surveyed said economic concerns and unemployment were the biggest problems facing Turkey.
Meanwhile, Ayton Cherai, head of security policies for the "good party", Turkey's opposition, has criticized his country's presidential system.
In press statements, Cherai stressed that Turkey, under the presidential system that Erdogan wanted, witnessed an increase in unemployment, a rise in bankruptcy cases, a decline in human rights and freedoms, and an absence of justice, law and equality.
"While the government believed that it could take over everything by controlling traditional media, completely different media emerged. They want to establish a more authoritarian regime by creating control over social media at this time," the opposition leader said.
Cherai pointed to the high rate of unemployment with "this strange presidential system, unprecedented in the world."
He also pointed to the high number of people who "lost their property, reputation and future".
"Human rights and freedoms receded, justice, law and equality disappeared, they linked all decision-making mechanisms to one person, the presidential system of government, which is not like any system of government in any other country of the world." he said. "They told us that Turkey's economy will rise, we will open to the outside world, but the opposite is what happened, we have seen over the past two years that this system of government got the country to be poor."
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