Republican People's Party (CHP) Balıkesir MP Serkan Sarı stated that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has failed to fulfill its pre-election promise to abolish interviews in public recruitment. Sarı stated that despite AKP's election promises, the interview practice continues and described this situation as “breaking its promise”.
Sarı made the following statement on the issue: “One of the promises of the AKP before the elections was to abolish the interview practice in public recruitment and to make appointments based on KPSS score. However, close to the election, the then Minister of National Education also said that interviews would be abolished in teacher appointments. Unfortunately, interviews still continue. The promise to abolish interviews has turned out to be a lie and it does not seem that they will be abolished. As long as the AKP is out of power, the era of torpil, nepotism, placement of relatives, friends and relatives will not end. Promise and get votes, but don't keep your promise. This is the AKP's politics of lies.”
Sarı reminded the pre-election promise made by AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and drew attention to the statements in the AKP Election Declaration that the interview procedure would be abolished in first-time public appointments. He also reacted to Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin's statement that MoNE will continue to recruit personnel through interviews.
Sarı said that young people rely on their success in exams to start their working life and look to the future with hope. However, he emphasized that the interview practice overshadows these hopes and leads to the hiring of unqualified people. Sarı concluded his words as follows: “Our young people who take the KPSS should be placed in public jobs with the same number of points they get. The AKP government should keep its promise and immediately abolish the interview practice it promised before the elections.”
What happened?
Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin announced on HaberTürk that interviews will continue in teacher recruitment but the way they are applied will be changed.
“Upon the question ‘One of the President's election declarations included the promise that ’interviews will be abolished”“, Tekin said, ”Not exactly. Our President expressed his discomfort with the way the interviews were conducted. So we decided to make the interviews like interviews.".