just two weeks before the turkish local elections the country is sliding into recession economic alpert shrank by three percent in the fourth quarter last year increasingly the fallout of president out of one's isolationist policies is being felt by the average turkish citizen taxi drivers in istanbul are not happy. the view over the boss paris is beautiful but rush hour traffic in the city of fifteen million can be torturous especially for taxi drivers who are constantly stuck in traffic jams at this point they're pleased if they don't have to argue with passengers about the price. as and knows that there are some black sheep among the istanbul taxi drivers who collect excessive prices and he gets to feel it driving a taxi is not much fun anymore. in the past people mainly talked about soccer on weekends and at the beginning of the week especially on the days when league matches took place we used to talk to our passengers about the performance of the teams or mistakes of the referee but for the past year everyone who gets into the taxi has been complaining about the economy their fina