"Erdogan’s reshuffle clips military’s wings
By David Gardner in Istanbul
The picture, splashed across newspapers throughout Turkey, said it all. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister, sat stone-faced and alone at the head of the Supreme Military Council, where elected officials hitherto rubber-stamped the edicts of Turkey’s overmighty generals, who sat at top table. He was flanked by the one commander to survive last week’s cull of the army’s top brass, now the new chief of staff – and by civilian ministers. Other generals sat below the political salt. After a decade of clashes between Turkey’s powerful army and a government with its roots in political Islam, Mr Erdogan, re-elected in June by a landslide, was leaving no doubt he was in charge."
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