Lilliputs

Once upon a time, in a country of little men far away, there was an administration that came to power promising people to fight against poverty, corruption and prohibitions. Over the years, the administration achieved great strides in improving the economic conditions of the country but failed in the three areas it pledged to meticulously fight against.

While the number of greenback millionaires increased in the 12 years of rule of that political administration, not only ministers, but sons and even higher-up families as well were alleged to have been involved in corruption, misuse of office and several other forms of professional graft. It was also revealed that even the civil servant recruitment examinations were bypassed and those holding the honey pot indeed licked everything to the last drop, placed their relatives in nice public posts, fooling the recruitment system's rigid rules through fast-track transitional recruitments to local administrative positions. "What's in that?" it could be asked. Unfortunately there is lots in that because the central recruitment system through a high security central examination system was introduced in that country decades ago, just to stop favoritism and enable the state to recruit eligible candidates.

If and when even a parliamentary inquiry can be gagged with a court order and an all-inclusive domestic security package with the potential to turn the country into a police state is legislated through Parliament within a few days, ignoring all the criticisms, nepotism might not be an alien phenomenon at all.

Thank God such things do not happen in this beautiful Turkey. The newly elected president in that far-away country could not agree to become president like his predecessors and wanted to change...