"Turkey had a somehow solid democracy in place." The civic quality of the Turkish system has quite a troubled history. Turkey's government has been held at a g

"Turkey had a somehow solid democracy in place." The civic quality of the Turkish system has quite a troubled history. Turkey's government has been held at a gunpoint by it's military for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat "systemic corruption in the USA has been prevalent for almost a century" I think that needs a quotation. US history is filled with genocide, empire building and after the 1970's, funnelling the profits from the economy from the employees to the capital owners. That, however, is not the same thing as corruption. We're not discussing who is 'good' or 'bad', but comparing the quality and nature of institutions on the national level.