Unfortunatelly I flew too many years for that airline and must confirm this lack of professionalism. Everywhere you have good and bad guys but in THY particulary you find a combination of arrogance, ignorance and respect based on seniority and not knowledge.
Many old stubborn military captains who consider a good CRM when the FO shuts up and says "Yes my teacher".
THY missed the RWY in Kathmandu because CPT even briefed that he will go below minimum at an NPA and FO just replied "Yes my teacher".
In many cases you have a language barrier in the cockpit because many old cpt hardly speak english but fly a jet with 400 passengers all over the world. Just because of the high automation we donīt see a THY crashing every month. They squeeze the stuff to the max in duty times, bad salary in local currency, no rights, no requests possible, vacation 20 days per year (12 winter and 8 summer) and the vacation is given when they want.
Salary deductions if you are sick more then 2 days force pilots to work sick with flu and fever. If you need therapies they offer you to take unpaid leave where you donīt have any health or other insurance and no stuff tickets. THY fired last year 14 crew members because they established a new union to represent cabin and cockpit crew.
This combination of arrogance and ignorance is leading to accidents but they simply donīt care. THY has a culture of lying and cheating and intimidation. If a checker fails an old military pilot he looses his instructor title. 3 years ago they put young pilots from the flight academy on A330. They make 2-4 landings per month... Catastrophic management failures just guided by narrow minded greed. THY lost more then 1000 pilots in the last 2 years and replace experienced pilots by young guys from the academy and consider themselfs extremely smart...
Of course you have also great educated, cultivated and motivated people in THY trying to fight against these uneducated managers who are sent from the government without having any qualification for their positions but they resign, get fired or simply loose their belief that anything will change.
THY is not paying anything for your retirement. Youīll get 100 in turkish currency and thatīs it. For widebody expat captains they pay 350 housing allowance or the hotel for all other crews nothing. No money for childrens' education and in turkey education costs a fortune. People get fired when they are sick or trying to improve something. Beware that everything is happening behind your back there. Nobody is honest to you although youīll find a few friendly persons.