This is exactly what has happened :). People close to the government made unbelievable profits at the expense of the people. If you're interested look up the story of the evoparated 128 billion USD of the Turkish Central Bank.
Our central bank sold 128 billion USD to friends of the son-in-law of Erdogan at a ridiculously low interest rate last year (1 usd = 6 Lira, now it is 14 Liras) with a confidential protocol. People have noticed it through the balance sheet of the Central Bank. Government officials refused the comment first, then they admitted that 128 billion USD were in fact sold. We still do not know to whom it was sold.
This is probably the fraud of the century.
There are capital controls, it would be illegal to sell in Euros to non-foreigners. There isn't anything stopping you from increasing the prices by indexing it to Euro though, you just have to announce it. Most consumer electronics markets use digital price tags for this reason. They update all prices in TL regularly (once a day etc.). Apple has this strange policy that it uses a fixed rate. They pick a high fx rate and stick with it until Lira depreciates to absurd amounts again.
Nothing is stopping us, in fact the dolarisation of savings hit 67% (if I'm not mistaken). People keep their savings in gold and fx. But your salary is fixed in Lira, the cost of living increases. Each month you see that you are getting poorer and poorer (and by poorer I mean 10-15% each month). It's really hard right now.
Well, I beg to disagree. There are millions of Turks living in Northern Cyprus. Prior to Turkey's military intervention, the Turkish people were being massacered. If Turkey ever ceases to support Northern Cyprus, there needs to be some sort of military presence to keep peace.
Northern Cyprus is not just a lifeless island, it's a place that has been the home for many Turks for hundreds of years. If having lived in the same country for hundreds of years after conquering it doesn't give you a legitimate claim to reside there, I don't know what will.
I think the value of human life is much more important than getting into a union. The EU shouldn't have pushed this requirement.
The main issue with law is that it is written in an ambiguous language.
Theoretically you could write more precise laws with code.
Maybe they should have let a group of contract lawyers proofread what the code does. Lawyers look for bugs, inconsistencies, errors, loopholes all the time.
What more could we expect from them to do? They are a for-profit company. Opensourcing their entire interpreter stack with years of proprietary development is a bold move. It shows that they care about open source and want to give back to the community.
They could've kept these developments behind closed doors and nobody would mind it.
They also offered to provide support if anyone wanted to contact them. That is top-class behaviour from instagram, I personally couldn't expect more.
I am a novice, maybe that's why I liked it.