The sharp devaluation of the Turkish Lira and high inflation in the country has resulted in Apple pulling all sales from its Turkish website. The company has not confirmed when it will begin selling in Turkey again, either.
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Apple has temporarily stopped serving Turkey on its website following the decline of the Turkish Lira. Currently, the Turkish Apple Online Store remains active, with the plethora of Apple hardware still available to view and configure. However, the company is preventing anyone from adding any device to their basket, let alone check out.
It is unclear when Apple will begin trading in Turkey again. As it stands, all Apple products would cost significantly less in Turkey than in the Eurozone, the UK or the US when taxes are factored in. For example, an iPhone 13 sells for TL 11,999, equivalent to €827 or US$930. Similarly, a new mid-tier MacBook Pro 16 costs TL 31,999 (~€2,204), why is far lower than the €2,979 it retails for in the Eurozone.
Presumably, Apple will only return to Turkey once the country's currency stabilises, a situation that is also uncertain. As Reuters explains, the Turkish Lira lost 45% of its value against the US dollar since the start of the year, and 15% in a week, following interest rate cuts.
jenrazzle on November 25th, 2021 at 13:34 UTC »
I'm currently in Turkey (American living in Germany) and bought a MacBook air for $820 on Tuesday. Hate to take advantage of a bad economy but love a deal.
ButtermanJr on November 25th, 2021 at 10:12 UTC »
Basically Apple had to pull the plug because the whole site was effectively ~half price. Hilarious.
ImamChapo on November 25th, 2021 at 05:06 UTC »
Unfortunately this beautiful country has complete economic idiots reigning. There was a time when the Turkish economy was truly admirable. 1Usd was 2 Tl. People had money in their pockets, they could plan European holidays, and could afford anything if they saved enough. Nowadays anything foreign costs months if not years of wages. Turkey had great economists. Özgür Demirtaş for example was a great one. Unfortunately things in Turkey don’t operate on how knowledgeable you are in your field, but how close and likeable you are to the president. You have to remember erdogan appointed his son in law as the economic minister. Where he said “if you’re looking to buy dollars and wait for the lira to crash and turn a profit, you’ll wait long” and then the lira dropped lmao and when the son in law left the seat. The lira gained value. Think about that. An empty seat gained more confidence for the economy than the presidents son in law. Did erdogan learn his lesson and appoint someone who actually knows what he’s doing ? No he doubled down and said “I know economics” ( forged diploma btw ) and here we are.
So what happened ? What’s the current situation in Turkey ?
Well people started to protest marching “ political party resign” and demanded an early election. However supreme leader president said “no we aren’t a tribal nation that has elections every 20 months”. Which is ironic since he called the last snap election. Anyways in the coming days expect waves of people getting labelled terrorist by the regime for speaking up against the president.
The cops were expected to beat the shit out of the protestors, although marching and protesting is considered a right in Turkey. Luckily in some provinces police stated that they have no intention of locking people up for peacefully protesting.
We have yet to see how this will play out. If you know Turkish people, or stumble upon any online. Please acknowledge that you’re probably talking to someone who isn’t a fan of erdogan. Be supportive of them.
Cheerio