"Christopher Hitchens: Turkish military is no longer the guardian of secularism
Christopher Hitchens Aug 3, 2011 – 2:31 PM ET
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Turkey's Gen. Isik Kosaner and Cmdr. Necdet Ozel walk at the Ataturk mausoleum in Ankara on July 31.
To read of the stunning news, of the almost-overnight liquidation of Turkey’s Ataturkist or secularist military caste, and to try to do so from the standpoint of a seriously secular Turk, is to have a small share in the sense of acute national vertigo that must have accompanied the proclamation of a new system in the second two decades of the 20th century."
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