Turkey's opposition party leader had power cut off at his home after he refused to pay his bills for two months to protest a sharp increase in subsidized energy prices, Reuters reported.

A currency crisis late last year sent inflation skyrocketing and prompted the government to raise prices in January on everything from gas and electricity to tolls, alcohol, bus fares and gasoline.

Annual inflation rose to 61% in March. Many analysts blame the economic turmoil on a series of unorthodox interest rate cuts orchestrated by President Tayyip Erdogan last year.

Kilicdaroglu said in February that he would stop paying his electricity bills and urged him not to raise prices.

On Thursday, he said his wife had notified him of a power outage at their Ankara home and that electricity prices, which had risen by 50-125% in early 2022, had risen by more than 400% in three years.

Almost 3.5 million Turkish subscribers were cut off electricity in 2021, Kilicdaroglu added, without specifying the source of this information.

The surge in inflation has hit Erdogan's popularity ahead of nationwide elections due no later than June 2023, which see Kilicdaroglu as a potential contender for the presidency.