I'm having second thoughts about writing this, because i don't have anything to gain from writing this. But i just can't stop myself, i have to sy this. This goes way before the coup attempt, and it was not limited to teachers. Only difference was this: you take a nationwide exam (a test), and teachers get employed based solely on how good their exams were. If your score is high enough, you get the job. There were news about the answers to questions given to Gulenists a few years ago, but it's not relevant to this. It caused quite a stir.

Anyway, now teachers go through an interview also, and the people sitting across the table have the authority to not employ you, if they don't like you.

It was not that much "in your face" style, but for a person who wants to get a job, say in a ministry or in the police force or in the military, there was these interviews, for years, and of course there still is.

I remember some news about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. You have to take an exam held by the ministry itself, to become a diplomat. They give you a text to translate. You have to translate it correctly to pass it. Also you write an essay. It's pretty heavy. Anyway, the news was about the personnel who recently started working in the ministry were taking English lessons, paid by the ministry itself, because their English was not enough. You get the idea. And don't get me started on mobbing, jeez.

It is sickening, and this needs to stop. Thousands of competent people are unemployed or working in unrelated jobs because of this.