Turkish economy was already tanking. The government has been trying to prop up the numbers since 2015. We have over 100% inflation for two years running.

AKP (The ruling party) was trying to figure out if they could postpone the elections; now they've realized that they'll lose even more votes as they're no longer able to keep up lying about the economy with the earthquake and are trying to have the elections ASAP instead.

They just blocked eksisozluk, a Turkish forum website. They'll probably block all media and social media and try to hold the elections in a complete media blackout so people are as uninformed about what's going on as possible.

They closed universities so people affected by the earthquake can be housed in dormitories; as if that was the only option for housing. The real reason is guessed that the government doesn't want students socializing and talking about politics. They saw the power this has during the 2013 Gezi protests.

Sozcu, a Turkish newspaper that managed to remain not owned by the state is launching their TV station on March 1st. RTUK (Turkish Radio and Television High Authority) has been sending fines left and right to any station doing close to honest reporting on the current crisis. Likely Sozcu TV will be completely shut down as soon as it airs. God knows they've been blocking and stalling all the permits for years now.

Anyone in Turkey who speaks the truth right now is in the crossairs of the government. They want their lies retold, nothing more.