1- Jimmy Carter    Honest, humanitarian, intellectual, intelligent

2- Ronald Reagan   Faith in his role as president, a straight-forward personality, consistent and stable

3- Billy Clinton      Intelligent, intellectual. If it weren´t for his indecency he would be on the top of this list.

 You are lucky then. In Turkey, politicians generally just listen to their local organizations in each town where they get the information about which doctor supports which party. Head doctors and administrators supporting other parties are immediately passivized, appointed to a hospital in a remote part of the country, forced to resign or ask for retirement. Those supporting their party on the other hand is usually given a quick promotion regardless of their merit or experience.

This unfortunately does not only apply to the healthcare system only. Upon rising to power, they usually spend the first year for undoing the favours done by the previous government to their own supporters. Once they are done with them, the new guys begin to ride the gravy train.

If it weren´t for these corrupt people, Turkey could have long been a wealthier and a much  more stable country.

Well here is a rough translation. A bit touchy isn´t it?

You put off love until tomorrow

Sheepish, hesitant, well behaved

all your kin have known you wrong

Due to unfinished work. You wouldn´t want this to happen

Whereas a mere look would suffice to reveal everything

Feelings filling your heart stayed where they are.

You looked forward to have ample time

It would be ugly to declare love when hard-pressed for time

You wouldn´t know with you always rushing time would take away too soon

There used to be nocturnal flowers blooming in your secret garden

Yet you were never ready to offer any

And the time was never ripe.

and the spelling book too

AE reminds me of two things: Canon AE1 (I still have one of them) and Auto Exposure. From now on, it will also mean Aenigma.

The private hospitals in Turkey are generally well-built and well organized facilities usually designed for the needs of richer people or those with private healthcare coverage. Despite I have a right to use some of the more expensive ones, I opt for a modest hospital on account that they work like a geniune healthcare instution and not like a money trap unlike most others.  

Some time ago, I visited a fashionable hospitable which had just been acquired by a Jewish investment group. Since I had known the hospital which is notorious for its high prices, I had astounded at witnessing the numerous cost saving measures that involved things like poorer quality water being served to patients. They were acting as if they were trying to avoid an imminent bankruptcy. When it came to prices however, they were a couple of times more expensive than the average healthcare facility. The same hospital was in the headlines several times when they did nothing other than watching when say a pizza delivery guy was hit by a car just in front of them.

State hospitals are usually overcrowded. There is an appointment system in place. Say, your child has a hard to fix problem in his jaw, you have to plan forward and apply for an appointment when he is five-six years  old so that he can have an appointment when he becomes operable at the age of 9 or 10.

The national healthcare system in Turkey has been being abused by almost everyone involved in it. Remarkably, there are patients whose conditions would hardly justify coming to a hospital or medication. There are never ending lines of people waiting to benefit from a highly inefficient healthcare system.

You will probably not believe this but I remember the mother of my grandmother.

I would call her koca babaanne meaning grand grand mother.  The story would get even more weird if I told you I  remember her mother too.  Strangely, we call her with her name plus nine and not as koca koca ...

Of course, they are grammatically correct. There is no doubt about it. Though perfectly valid for all intents and purposes, there are certain words, phrases or sometimes entire sentences borrowed from other languages. The structure in question for example contains  words that entered the language from old Germanic dialects. When this is the case, more than often specific rules such as those applying to conjugation, pluralization etc are also imported. We have many examples to that in Turkish too. For example,  the words : nizam, tanzim, intizam, muntazam are all derived from the same root  and are conjugated according to the rules of the Arabic language. Through extensive usage, we (at least until lately) used these variations as if it were the most natural thing to conjugate words like that. 

Political, religious or other influences temporarily open a window into another language. The words or usages that came through that window may or may not last. If  you checked out a Turkish dictionary belonging to some 50 years ago, you would be amazed at the number of Arabic and Persian words. Many of them however have now disappeared. The birth and the divergence of other dialects of English might be signalling a new phase of development driven mostly by the internal dynamics of the English language.

Not long ago, before Roger Ascham and other (patriotic!) educators initiated the education reform in England, French and Latin were primarily used in education. It is through their efforts that English has gained the support of its own people. Similar things can be said of the Finnish,Greek, Bulgarian and Hungarian languages. In all these countries, the patriotic sentiment was instrumental in the revival of the domestic tongues.

Where is the problem? The first sentence is in simple present and the second in present perfect just as you suggested...

Understand you this sentence? Maybe, understand I have got not...