An interesting story caught my eye in Sunday’s Turkish press. The headline used a famous Turkish proverb: "In order to make our eyebrow, we pulled our eye out" which can be translated freely by using another well known Greek proverb: "with our own little hands, we pulled out our own little eyes". These two similar self-bashing proverbs could not be more accurate yet so comical if the story, which appeared yesterday, richly illustrated on the Sunday newspapers, is true.