{"id":273992,"date":"2025-11-09T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273992\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:07:12","slug":"turks-drive-hours-to-buy-cheese-in-greece-and-escape-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273992\/","title":{"rendered":"Turks Drive Hours to Buy Cheese in Greece and Escape Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Almost every month, Cihan Citak gets into his car, passport in hand, and sets off from Istanbul to Alexandroupolis, a Greek seaside city 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Turkish border. After a roughly four-hour drive, he walks the crowded aisles of the local supermarket, filling his cart with wine, cheese and other groceries that cost a fraction of what they do back home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe kind of olive oil they sell at \u20ac10 per liter, you can only buy at double the price\u201d in Turkey, said Citak, the general manager of a food and beverages company, who says he mainly looks for high-quality products at better prices. \u201cOn average, my shopping costs one-third of what it would\u201d at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost every month, Cihan Citak gets into his car, passport in hand, and sets off from Istanbul to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,1020,5693,164,1295,3898,5465,5626,41073,84,116176,5216,7240,940],"class_list":{"0":"post-273992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cities","12":"tag-economics","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-food","15":"tag-greece","16":"tag-inflation","17":"tag-interest-rates","18":"tag-istanbul","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","21":"tag-retail","22":"tag-shopping","23":"tag-turkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}