Political responsibility should not be forgotten

Following the major blackout that left the entire country in the dark, the general manager of the Turkish Electricity Transmission Company (TE?A?) resigned. It is rumored Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z asked for his resignation; his own statement was in the style of "They wanted it and I also wanted it."  

Later, several department heads were also under investigation and suspended from their positions. 
This is not a very usual situation for us because our general trend is to protect civil servants who have made a mistake. 

This time, there was a change and the faulty civil servant resigned. 

Is that enough? No, it is not. The person who appointed that civil servant, the energy minister, also has a political responsibility. People voted for him and gave him that position so he could manage things smoothly.  
Of course, he could not run all the business himself; he is expected to find the most competent civil servants.  

But the energy minister was not able to do this. He could not select his staff correctly. He could not manage properly. 

In the mines under his responsibility, in Soma, in Ermenek, we have seen this; hundreds of workers died in vain.

There was a blackout and the cost was nearly $1 billion. And the political responsibility of this falls to nobody but himself, yet he continues to occupy the same position.  

Touch someone on the sore spot 

The ban on social media has only one meaning: The state that could not protect its prosecutor is trying to block its citizens' access to the related stories. 

They assume if they ban it, the incident will appear as if it did not happen and in time be forgotten.
The Office of the Prosecutor should conduct a very serious and...