President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems determined to be Earth’s best — or worst, depending on your definition — political suicide bomber. Burying Turkey in multiple serious but avoidable crises, Erdogan ensures his nation’s growing suffering.

Let’s start with the economy. When it comes to the Turkish lira’s rising inflation, which now hovers around 12%, the primary causal factors are A) market expectation of near term European Union on U.S. sanctions being imposed on Ankara, and B) Erdogan’s utter mismanagement of the economy.