Well saight
First the company and the suroundings are unique, well saight THYTHY.
The people I flew with where nice and warmhearted humans, they embraced you as you where one of theire own even during the assessment.
Then you have the one who are jealous when you deadhead from or to IST on a A320 or B737 and they think you block them from getting promoted to the"High Fleet Job" (A330/340 B777).
On the other side you have the quarter to quarter thinking people only in the higher level of administration and the ones who deal with the Government agencies about valdidation and visa. Not effective at all. There where cases that type ratet and expirienced pilots need about 10 to 12 months until they finished the conversion course, needless to say that many of them left in the meantime.
Now they see that the past was not any good for THY. Now they try something new, throw a new coin and hope for the best instead of taking the right people into the right key position to get things going. That of course could hurt the Buddy scheme, that would question the status quo for some and there you start to reach the starting point again: Find the corner where you start when you are in a circle !
Just to enlighten you a bit more: No hiring into the A330/340 and B777 fleet, advise from above. Sort out the problem in another way, back to square one.
Discipline requires also sacrifice your own benefit now and then, the way I have seen it is that many try to invent the wheel new. Achieve goals without any concessions who would be beneficial in the long term. Targets are set from quarter to quarter, who cares about a year or even for a decade?
The product that the passenger get in the Cabin is good, the food outstanding.
If you are ready to retire tomorrow like Payscale saight it maybe fit you, if you need to feed a family and pay the bills regularly then beware the step you might do: From slippery ground to iced surface. You could slide out tomorrow again as there will be a new excuse that the services of ExPats is not welcomed anymore and you are faster History then you think.
Enjoy the Blue Mosque, the Grand Basar, the Bospherus Cruise and the Evenings at the Taksin Place as long as you are there if you want to take the chance but be warned and prepared at the same time.