They were testing the public opinion on delaying the elections right after the earthquake. A former government politician Bülent Arınç made a statement that even though the constitution doesn't allow for delaying the elections it should be considered. He even went so far as to say "What, is it written in the holy scriptures that elections can't be delayed?" for which people mocked him on social media because, you know, constitution>quran.

Anyway they quickly back pedaled on postponing elections now they see that as how much this earthquake is going to effect the country in the long term is becoming clear. Out of 14 million people that were affected by the destruction, more than 3 million have already relocated to other cities. Unemployment which was already significant is going to go through the roof. The government has spent all emergency funds that were supposed to be in place for such emergencies on useless constructions megaprojects to enrich their cronies.

Turkey had 40 billion USD of taxes collected for earthquake response, the fund is empty. There was 24 billion USD of mandatory unemployment insurance collected, was reallocated to the "Turkish Wealth Fund" which is directly under Erdogan's control and is exempt from state oversight, and spent. Central Bank of Turkey had 128 billion USD of emergency funds, was spent by Erdogan's son in law Berak Albayrak to try and keep the value of the Lira up (USDTRY went down from 2.80 to 18.87).

They've been selling assets of the country as fast as they can to get cash flow in. Since this is being done through the wealth fund it's not even possible to say just how much they've sold off so far. It wasn't enough so they started allowing "dirty" money to enter the country's banking system. Which is why Turkey has been put in the grey list.

Long story short, since around 2008 the government has no idea what they're doing, they keep trying to save the day, with no underlying plan for medium to long term strategy; and we're fucked.

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.