Based on their desire to enter the EU, their fear of military repression, and as a way to win the most votes, Erdogan's AK party rode to power by running against the headscarf ban on the one side, and as an efficient, non-corrupt, service-oriented, pro-market government on the other.
"You need a clean, transparent, not corrupt security service without ties to terrorism".
This issue has already helped to prompt strikes by health workers, teachers, and electricity workers.The government has squeezed through one or two changes, including some tough fiscal measures early on, and a reform of the corrupt customs service.
The Byzantines developed an extensive and highly corrupt civil service, and the imperial capital's wealth acted as a dangerous magnet, drawing ambitious Balkan leaders to it with disastrous results.
This country may surpass Kuwait in oil exports by 2010, but it is still crippled by an inefficient and corrupt public service, decaying infrastructure and attacks by a weakened but unrepentant rebel army, say diplomats and local and United Nations officials.
Four of 12 docks in Maputo harbor -- those handling sugar, citrus, coal and containers -- have been privatized, as has the notoriously corrupt customs service, which is now run by a British company, Crown Agents.
They fumed at the president's decision to appoint his son as the head of the country's notoriously corrupt customs service while ignoring widespread unemployment.Last October Mr Kuvatov called, via Facebook, for an anti-regime protest in Dushanbe, the Tajik capital.
The Russians were quickly rebuffed by Shevardnadze, who understands that neutrality is his only hope of staving off a full-blown war throughout the Caucasus... Tells about his running battles with young investigative reporter Akaki Gogichaishvili, who recently described a corrupt Customs service that took in as much in bribes as the government's entire budget.
Alka: The civilian head, sir. But our government is really run by the military and the notoriously corrupt intelligence service, ISI.
Sivaji is forced to bribe the corrupt civil service, but eventually, the bribes demanded become so high that he has to mortgage his house and sell his car to pay them.
