New Turkey has positions only for theologians

Young people of Turkey; keep your ideals unlimited in this country. If you proceed in the “proper” channels, then you can achieve and become anything you have dreamed of. Education and expertise do not matter.

What have we seen in previous years?

A physical education teacher was made chief physician, wasn’t he?

The director of a zoo was made a director at TÜBİTAK, Turkey’s prestigious Scientific and Technical Research Council.

The general manager of PTT was appointed to the highest position in the Tennis Federation, right?
A person who was once a deputy director at the fisheries wholesale market, who later worked at the İETT, then was a wrestling referee at Tekirdağ Youth and Sports Provincial directorate was made the director of City Theaters, wasn’t he?

We were surprised in 2008 that a graduate of the Islam Institute, after working in the Directorate of Cemeteries, the Fire Department and the Solid Waste Management department, was appointed as the director of Istanbul’s City Orchestra.

Now, there is no surprise factor; it has become routine.

The last bomb exploded at Mardin Artuklu University. Mehmet Akbaş, a graduate of the Theology Department, was appointed to take Associate Professor Güner Coşkunsu’s place as Head of the Archaeology Department,

It is common knowledge nowadays that at university social science desks, people who are graduates of theology are hired.

Do not look for science or professional ethics; they do not exist.

In this university, Mardin Artuklu Univeristy, much has been happening lately.

Member of the executive board of the Archaeologists Association Binnur Çelebi said that outgoing department head Coşkunsu was...