According to official figures, inflation in Turkey continued to weaken in January.
Consumer prices rose 57.7 percent year-on-year, the state statistics agency said on Friday.
Inflation was 64.3 percent in December.
The reason for the decline is falling gas prices and a statistical effect.
Since May 2021, inflation in Turkey has risen continuously to new record levels month after month.
In October, the official rate reached 85.5 percent.
According to official information, the increase weakened again for the first time in November.
The role of energy imports
Economists attribute the slowdown in part to falling prices for Turkey's energy imports.
Natural gas prices have fallen back to early 2022 levels after spiking in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, the lower year-on-year inflation is due to the particularly sharp increase at the end of 2021, when the Turkish currency collapsed.
Compared to the previous month of December, prices rose by 6.7 percent in January.
Independent experts from the Enag research group also doubt the official figures.
In January, they expect inflation to rise by 121.6 percent year-on-year.
They had calculated 137.5 percent for December and even 170.7 percent for November.
Head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who wants to be re-elected in June, had promised a slowdown in inflation.
The enormous price increases are largely due to his policy of economic growth.
However, the high prices and the population's loss of purchasing power increasingly became a political problem for Erdogan.