President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Mehmet Yiğiner, the general chairman of the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen, at a meeting in the capital. TESK speaks for shopkeepers, artisans, mechanics and small workshop owners across the country, a constituency Erdoğan has courted since his first years in power. Receptions like this one usually touch on credit lines, tax pressure, energy bills and the cost of materials that weigh hardest on the smallest businesses. Neither the president's office nor the confederation gave a detailed account of what the two men discussed. The meeting lands at a stretch when inflation has squeezed small traders hard and many have asked the government for fresh relief. Yiğiner's organization keeps offices in nearly every province and can mobilize its members quickly when its interests are at stake. A short photo statement put out by the presidency gave no hint of any concrete pledges. Whether the audience produces new support programs for tradespeople will be the real test.