A humorist as prime minister

The country has been passing through such horrible days that perhaps it would be great to have humorists occupying governmental seats. Even if there might be a president acting as if he has become a sultan or emperor, no one of course can claim that the prime minister and other ministers have started acting like imperial jokesters. No way; members of the cabinet have always been respectable and serious personalities.

Still, I just could not understand why Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu decided to make a joke to European parliamentarians when he spoke at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly the other day. Naturally, as Turkish became one of the "working languages" of the assembly that day, it was great to hear a Turkish prime minister addressing it in Turkish. Similarly, was it not odd or perhaps politically suicidal for a politician who is presumably leftist and demonstratively supportive of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gang to ask a question to Davuto?lu in English, and worse define PKK terrorists as "guerillas?" Some people might have developed an instinct to play jokester when they found such an opportunity. The Turkish language becoming one of the working languages of the Parliamentary Assembly was of course a historic opportunity for this country and people aspiring to become part of the European family of nations for ages. Why spoil it at that important moment? 

Davuto?lu was in his best spirits that day. He was no longer speaking with his elaborated President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an-style as if he had a baseball in his mouth. He was clear and very confident. He spoke of Turkey's European-ness, why it belonged to Europe, the refugees and many other topics, and of course touched heavily on the "need" to write a new Turkish...