Indeed and does highlight a level of corruption in which money allows you to get away with murder, most literally in some Middle Eastern countries you mention.

Indeed and does highlight a level of corruption in which money allows you to get away with murder, most literally in some Middle Eastern countries you mention. This and the EU's pokemon attitude to the European tectonic pklate of got too collect them all, seems to allow some serious issues to get dismissed and overlooked in Turkey alone. As for Qatar and Saudi Arabia, again, if they were not rich countries would they be allowed as much slack as they do. Still, maybe people had enough of this level of corruption and double-standards being allowed; Which may in part explain how people vote in today's times.