Turkish Delight ( Translated)

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Turkish Delight

A Kurdish commentator, on Arabtimes site where I issued mylatest editorial, had mentioned something about Turkey being

the country of bribery and theft, to the degree of epidemic. I

myself am not a Turkish fellow, nor do I relate to Turkey by any

means, but I like to tackle such issues, for the sake of comparing

what we have here in Iraq to theirs .

Bribery is a common theme here and there, whether a

commission or any other term covering for it. For this

phenomena to go epidemic in one country, this indicates that therules and regulations are very lean ( particularly the enforcement

part of legislations, since almost every constitution is against

bribery, presumably speaking).It also indicates loss of scrutiny

and follow-up too, as well as a shallow level of salaries and

wages of state officials, compared to what is needed to cater for

living and effective market prices. It also indicates an added

criterion of radical wealth levels deviation ,that gap between

Maharajas and Castaways ,all encased within the same society. Imyself have come to realize it, that those rich ones are there

most of the times, to promote for bribing and do the lead , in

order to lubricate things, and save both time and effort, on the

expense of the poor, and sacrificing ethics for final . It all goes

like that part of Quran saying (And do not eat up your property amongyourselves for vanities, nor use it as bait for the judges, with intent that ye may eat up

wrongfully and knowingly a little of (other) people's property. )The cow-188.

Other indication include fragile modes of education and lean

enforcement of religious & state ethics, both individuals-wise


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and multitudes-wise, and that is best perceived when you sense

the huge gap between the prevailing terminology, and the

individual's practices. Still, the most dominant cause that drags

people to resort to bribery is the loss of both justice and equity,

when the balance of rights and duties goes berserk. Unlike the

case with adultery, bribery is relevant to more than just a duo .If

you were to approach it in the most righteous manner, you need

to include so many partners in this crime, as explained above.

You will be ending up with the need to "stone" all those

affiliates.

It was at the Iraqi-Syrian borders, rather than the Turkish ones

,that I first knew of bribery. Having been there for the first time,

I missed to do as others did by then, inserting a one dollar worth(50 Syrian Liras) between the pages of my passport, to

"facilitate" implementation of the routine check there. My

fellow passengers got late for two hours, waiting for my

passport to be released. Actually, I ended asking the officer

there to release it and give me one solid reason to respect his

country, compared to HKJ where I came from by then. He

responded most silently, handing it to me, a silence that was to

tell a thousand stories!!As for Iraq, I guess there is no need to elaborate much, probing

bribery, for it is more than explicit, i.e. it is approved and

preached by all ministries .We have a unified "price" for a

passport, and for an ID, or an Iraqi Citizenship ID,etc.

However, I have to acknowledge my gratitude here, for the

Kurdish officials at Ibraheem Al Khaleel terminal, and at other

state institutions there, their airport and customs inspectors in

Erbil, for the polite, descent and keen service that they provide.You are to enjoy the best treatment there, unlike all other border

check points along the Iraqi borders. I am saluting them, and

pray to God that this "benign disease" is to spread all the way

out , and get their fellow Iraqi officials to be "infected and

contaminated" with it too, because a few hundred kilometers

south of it, you are destined to come across all kinds of

corrupted staff , and those who do not have the guts to ask for a

bribe, favor screwing your case in stead, through using the


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regulations to serve the slutty government, rather than serving

you. This is how they understand (Patriotism) and being

honorable !!

Speaking of Turkey, once you are admitted into their territories,

you are prone to be asked by their foxy yellow cab drivers, is it

your first time to Turkey? You would most probably reply

positively, responding to the GG enzyme of your "Green

Gland", the very enzyme responsible for confessing it how it

is !! He would be leading you to an officer's office , where he

will convince you to cut a long way short, and pay a little bribe,

to "hasten" it. His justification will be making use of the fact

that you, most probably, have not arranged for bringing enoughcash to support your living there, some 50 USD per day,

multiplied into your visa duration, i.e., an amount of 1500 USD.

This is clarified at the Turkish Embassy where your passport

had been stamped and granted a visa, but most tourists do not

focus on it and forget to bring more than that amount with them.

This is the shape of the things to come onto you, but it is a case

of a Kurdish cab driver not abiding by the Quranic rule, 'Aayah

188, mentioned above .I am not quite sure what to call thiscrime, dear fellow who accused the Turks of being all

corrupted!! Should we be splitting it between both of them, 50-

50, that Turkish officer and the Kurdish driver? Or do we have

to allot each part of it to each offender, proportionally!!

Actually I have described those drivers as being "foxy" most

deliberately. They have lots of tricks to make money through

smuggling tea sacks and foreign cigarettes, using thepassengers suitcases and baggage. They add too much to that

140 USD that they are accustomed to charge, to carry you to

Diyarbekir, north of the borders, not to mention the use of your

own passport, to shop for more foreign cigarettes from the Duty

Free shop there .

This is what awaits you there, not necessarily of course. I myself

had been taken once .Next to that first time of mine, I would

always start a little chat ,using my humble vocabulary of


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Turkish language, informing the driver through it all that his

luck is a bit bad this time, and it is "onwards" that he would be

driving all frowningly, not much to be said!

It is most likely that one driver, here or there, is to rob you of

more cash, using a hoax like pretending to have paid for an

entry ticket to the Autogar of theirs, or using the old trick of the

preset meter of his cab. Acquiring the least fluency of Turkish

language is essential, otherwise, you will find yourself helpless,

although realizing what the driver is planning for, but it is about

the typical tricks of all hopeless drivers all around the world.

Back when I was in the army, we used to mimic both (signals

operators and transport corpse drivers, as (Wire & Tyre), for all

the tricks that they used to invent, to dodge any mission or dutyof theirs.

Turkish drivers are used to employing an improvised

mechanism to improve the mileage of their expensive fuel. We

,in contrast to them, have opted to add all kinds of yellow

liquids (!!) to the gasoline we sell to our fellow Iraqi citizens, as

a reaction to any shortage of fuel supply. I felt very sad seeing

all those Turkish gas stations along the way from Silopi extremesouth of Turkey, to Ankara. Such clean and tidy stations of fuel

and lubricants supplies , offering pure fuel of all kinds at the

predetermined tariff , pure gas, yet, almost abandoned with no

much trafficking to nourish them while in my country, there is

hardly one, hardly any single gas station owner, that is neither

into adding water to the fuel, nor keeping his station closed all

the time of the day , having sold the whole delivery to black

market traders at extra-reasonable profits , caring none for thefaggot government that allows all kinds of foul plays like these!!

This is what I used to see along the way between Iraqi towns

and governorates, and the inner image is far worse than that .

Most of the stations are abandoned, for no justified reason, and

the only one tenth operable, has too many pumps inoperative !!

This seems to be the only part of the whole planet, where the

operators pay a salary to the owner of the station , and the more


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you offer, the best your chances of being employed are !! Is

there any trace of a state or a government amidst all this chaos?

How much does it cost to repair or even buy, a petrol pump, you

cheap SoB's? How many more years are we to live before seeing

any progress? Is it any possible to make use of stem cells to

create a valid and effective conscience within you? Will you

ever get enough with money? Any chance of getting that sick

"ego' of yours, as you mistake yourselves for another Mahathir

of Malaysia, while all that you are ever capable of , is leading

the people who had elected you, for a deeper downfall?

This is how it is round here. I have elaborated much about it,

only to give you an idea why my nerves are all set on fire all thetime, and why I am always using harsh styles to defend my

points of view .We have had enough, of life that is always

deteriorating more and more, where our yesterdays are always

far better than our anticipated tomorrows. This is how it is, can

you tell me now, who is more eligible to acquire this oil wealth?

I had been to those weird acts of taxi drivers, in Amman too, so

many years ago. The taxi driver robs you through tamperingwith the meter reading. Even in Lebanon too, the driver would

be circling around the spot, to bluff you. In Shanli Urfa of

Turkey too, where there is a shrine of Prophet Abraham, and the

majority of its drivers are but Arabs and Kurds. They are

accustomed to bluffing the customers , alleging that their

vehicles are equipped with air conditioning (Qlima, as they

pronounce it, derived from "Climate, Climattizatta of those

FIAT cars).Once the car moves on, you will be discovering itthat there is no air conditioning service and the hot winds of

summer will be hitting your face all the way. Lacking any

fluency of their language, you would be just quitting any

argument, and cling to enjoying the inevitable rape of

Confucius!! The bluff can be addressed "Turkish", or "Kurdish,

or even an "Arabic" one ,it all applies well, but either way you

choose, it would be your inherent intentions that is to dictate it !!


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Speaking of theft, I should be telling you that I had never been

robbed there. Neither by their hotel maids, nor while using their

transport , not even in their crowded markets. I beg your pardon,

forgive me for this one . I am sure that they have thieves like all

countries do have , but we could never generalize it, that they all

are thieves, dear Kak Saman. What we already have here in Iraq,

entitles us none of this so-called "right",( I prefer to call it

"wrong", in stead !!). I had been robbed of my car, and of my

car tyres too, my land line had been hijacked , and my mobile

picked from my pocket too, my achievements too, even those

papers and projects that I had contributed through them to serve

my country, they had all been robbed , a jerk hijacked them and

attributed them to himself ,showing no remorse at all!! He wasone of those chameleon human beings who camouflage their

skin appearance to fit the new era, yet, I am taking the blame for

him and his likes, that ex-Ba'thi transformed opportunist ! This

can explain to you most of what we are fighting about . The ex-

bad guys, are part of the current government now, and are re-

practicing the same old tactics, robbery, bribery, ass-kissing and

treason .

This is but a few of what I have experienced here. How much

more am I supposed to enumerate ? We have gone way beyond

any reasonable limit. We need to review and consider all

education & religious courses and curriculums in order to

survive the plight that did hit our lives much like a plague , and I

mean the process of creating muggers and queers out of pious

couples in legitimate matrimony!!

And like mentioned by Mr. Madhloom, the size of trade inbalance between both Iraq & Turkey is very ample and on a

daily basis , which suggests a high degree of trust in Turkish

providers and traders. I myself am no Turkman and have no

reason to defend them except for the right thing to do, truth has

no relatives, you know. Their industries are excellent , same as

their agriculture, and their products are up to the highest

standards like the ISO parameters , for they long to join the Euro

region as we all know. Their DURU soap industry is very good,


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for instance, but rest assured that it is our Iraqi Ministry of

Trade which insists on having the poorest 30% concentration

brands , in Ghazi Antep industrial area , to be exported to Iraq in

particular !! Who is to blame, in your opinion? As for us, try

asking any mechanical or electrical engineer, or any industrial

investor, up to a minister may be , " What does the ISO stand

for? What is required to acquire its certificate?". I am pretty sure

the reply will be in the order of "It is that CE sticker that is

stamped on most imported gadgets and equipments !!"

This is a nation that is capable of lending their national and folk

theme to all aspects of life abroad. They are pretty well in

playing all genres of music, to let them speak in Turkish usingtheir own folk instruments. Their labor guys are always there

" down the cellar ", like said by Iraqi immigrants, for a long

daily session of work, to produce goods that match the top

brands of European models . I believe that we have not been

witnessing any thing resembling that for ages!! We are

undergoing a perpetual hibernation !!

I know that my lines cause some irritation and harassment forsome of my Iraqi readers, but this is the undisputed truth. Our

country is very much retarded , and doomed in fact .We may be

doing the right thing disclosing things as they are . The

"Alfresco" sports playgrounds in Kurdistan are but a copy of

what the Turks already have. Even the colors of paints of their

buildings resemble those out there across the borders. Gas

stations, supermarkets , and malls too, are all following the

Turkish patterns. These are some modern life styles and patternsthat have become worldwide . It is not favored here for the mere

cause of prestige and modernization, but rather for the added

advantage of " softening" the hard and harsh tempers of our

people, bringing them to a lean and more patient style of

conduct, rather than pushing and racing in those local markets,

where every body is for himself all the time. It is no use having

the old establishments renewed each year, without getting

people to upgrade their mentality and their sense of art and


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and integrity, if we were not to stalk those assassins and punish

them. All Iraqis are requested to roam the streets and shout their

hearts out, so that the world be knowing it, what we are

undergoing here.

The followings are a few images of some of those nice people

whom I met there, Jailan from Izmir, and her mates too. The

young guy is in his final year of Computer Engineering, she

herself is studying German language and arts.


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I couldn't help comparing that protesting march with a little onehere in Mosul. Sadly, I have no images for it, because showing a


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camera there might suggest detention !! A few junk sellers

raising the poorest and ugliest signs asking the governor,

himself, to allow them a second chance before banning their

ugly chambers, selling second hand shoes and clothes here and

there. This is how democracy is demonstrated here !! In a

country that has the greatest wealth of all, how come we allow

our people to be using what the American people had consumed

and wiped clean before discarding with it !!. Isn't it a crime to

remain the poorest nation on earth, after all these years? What

benefit did we have after seven years of liberation and alleged

democracy?

Some might mistake it all for a democracy that is really worth it,

but do I stand a chance of asking the local council here to takecare of all destroyed roads, garbage dumping sites right between

the houses, extreme smoke of generators, as well as all weird

atrocities of government and state staff ? Is their democracy any

able to receive my complaints and react accordingly? I am really

desperate as to when will we be quitting all these hideous

scenes! Each time a humble project is to be commenced, a few

bunch start wailing and pretending to be a victim of it , asking

for another second chance. In Duhok, they erased a whole slumat the very entrance to their beautiful town, right at Aloka

bridge, and arranged for a descent complex to home those

people in stead, those who have been there for decades. Try

comparing it with what we have right at the five entrances of

Mosul, and you would surely be shocked to see the

environmental crisis prevailing there. It requires a hell of

funding and honest efforts to clear it all, almost millions of (man

.hour) units, this same parameter that had been overlookedcompletely, when this miserable governorate implemented

Sinhareeb bridge, taking tens of years to implement it, and using

no more than 3 men to finish it! In fact, it took them half a man,

multiplied by millions of hours!! Great people in deed!!

The final thing to poise is what had been mentioned about the

Turks being very radical and chauvinist. I myself think that all

people around our Arab homeland ,except Arabs of course , are


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prone to this feature, and I mean Iranians and Israelites . The

Turks do not ban Arabic language like said somewhere else on

Arabtimes site. Actually, the 15% percentage of illiterate

women in Turkey is attributed to the south east part of the

country, where tribal culture prohibits women from going to

schools. All Turkish towns adjacent to Syria are known to speak

Arabic and teach it . The Turkish language itself, which is the

official language for all Turkey, lends itself to Arabic language

very much . You can understand it most easily, but it still is hard

for you as an Arab fellow, to communicate with them and speak

Turkish. They have some pretty hard pronunciation of their

own, and their way of sequencing the verb, the object, and the

subject, is quite bizarre ,compared to our own. That is why theydo not follow your moves, if you were to try composing a

sentence, on your own. The difference between their language

and ours is exactly like that between French and English, where

the adjective comes first in English, unlike French.

But their endearment for their nationality is not just a negative

luxurious trend, nor it is meant for hostility issues. It had led

them to adopt their own advances in all aspects of life. It is apart of a mass ID system, relying on a vast and deeply rooted

history , and great achievements back then when ottomans ruled

over half the world, and all Tsars and Sultans were afraid to

harass them. It got them to dispense with importing . They are

there to manufacture things, or at least, assemble them in stead.

Almost each province of theirs has its own icon and identity, for

instance, Ghazi Antep pistachio , referring to the town that

defeated the French occupation, and Urfa with its Urfali pigeonsand Urfali kebab. The Turks do not force others to use their

language, in stead, they are coming back for Arabic terminology

in Izmir, Istanbul and Ankara. The way I see it is that when our

voltage , as neighbors of theirs, is very low compared to theirs,

then we are destined to have their current flowing from their

side into ours, not the other way round. This is most true from

the point of view of electricity, and that of Mr. Norton, and his


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friend Kirchhoff, too .Actually, it is the same point of view of

Mr. Bernoulli, viewing things from a perspective of fluids !!

This was how we learned English back when we were kids at

school, and this is why we are mandated to learn Latin medical

terminology too. The Europeans themselves had to do so, back

in those eras of Abbasid caliph, Al Ma'moon, and Andalusia

times, voltage gradient rules OK !!.

Their march of life , in general, is worth much respect, as I see

it. Let's be frank and have the guts to admit our own fallacies.

We had been on the course of wasting all those chances granted

to us by God himself, things that too many nations had been

deprived of . This may be the first step to take, in order to

ascend that long stairway up. Forgive me Mr. RamadhanMubarak for too much elaboration on this. You may pick

shorter editorials in stead of mine, and switch for other writers

to skip any boredom. These writings have their own audience,

and they blame me once I am late, and blame me once more, if

my editorials were to come out missing its rich blend !!

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